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Paperclip Posted 19 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation
Why is "one" pronounced like the way it is?
0 Hello, I'm a new member here :-) 02 br
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00 My first question for this dear board members is, why "one" is pronounced like/as "wan". The consonants and vocal from the pronounced are in different places from the written, and I think that if I didn't know the word and someone hadn't told me how to pronounce it correctly, I wouldn't be able to pronounce it with any degree of similiarity. 02 br
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00 Thank you. 02 br
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01 i 00 Edit: when I think about it, maybe the question should be why "one" as the pronounced word is written as o+n+e. 02 i 0-
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00 My first question for this dear board members is, why "one" is pronounced like/as "wan". The consonants and vocal from the pronounced are in different places from the written, and I think that if I didn't know the word and someone hadn't told me how to pronounce it correctly, I wouldn't be able to pronounce it with any degree of similiarity. 02 br
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00 Thank you. 02 br
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01 i 00 Edit: when I think about it, maybe the question should be why "one" as the pronounced word is written as o+n+e. 02 i 0-
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0 'Why' is not the question to ask when it comes to English pronunciation, I'm afraid. term=one
- 0 'Why' is not the question to ask when it comes to English pronunciation, I'm afraid.
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0 'Why' is not the question to ask when it comes to English pronunciation, I'm afraid. Surely you must have noticed by now that it's among the least logical of all languages in this sense (and in other aspects too), which might be part of its charm for some of us! 02 br
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00 Here's something about the origin of 'one': 02 br
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00 Here's something about the origin of 'one': 02 br
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0 Ah yes, I should have known that, but I thought a little that maybe the word has its origin, which gladly has been explained with the link you provided. Thanks! 0-
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0 Remember that current English spellings reflect how words were pronounced approximately 500 years ago, and not how the language is spoken today. 0-
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01 cite 10 Marvin A. 12 cite 10 Remember that current English spellings reflect how words were pronounced approximately 500 years ago, and not how the language is spoken today. 12 blockquote10 Heh, I didn't know that. Should we change the spelling of some words? If we go on like this, in 5000 years English will have nothing to
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01 cite 10 Marvin A. 12 cite 10 Remember that current English spellings reflect how words were pronounced approximately 500 years ago, and not how the language is spoken today. 12 blockquote10 So that's the way to look at words! Pronounciations have a tendency to change, while the spellings tend to stay the same. Am I right? 0
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0 >> While we are at it, what is that 500 years ago English called? Middle English? << 02 br
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00 Well 1500 is usually defined as the beginning of Modern English. 02 br
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00 >> Heh, I didn't know that. Should we change the spelling of some words? << 02 br
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00 No. Because they won't catch on. The difference bet
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00 Well 1500 is usually defined as the beginning of Modern English. 02 br
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00 >> Heh, I didn't know that. Should we change the spelling of some words? << 02 br
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00 No. Because they won't catch on. The difference bet
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