> That's because the British are morons when it comes to pronunciation
The American varieties with EE were given too.
Or did you mean to say native speakers are morons if it comes to pronunciation? 🤔
I don't think I'm entitled to dispute this ... 🤷🏽
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did you mean to say native speakers
I meant speakers of British English. Whether that should include non-native speakers may be tenuous, as, I suppose, non-native speakers are perhaps more likely to have picked up some American pronunciations from TV/movies. For whatever reason, American English is much more accomodating of proper pronunciations of other languages' words.
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I can't follow.
You said
> We do not say FEE-ord in America
Wiktionary claims otherwise.²
You seem to believe that American media comes with a standardized accent.
I can assure you that this is not the case, probably you might not notice the varieties anymore.
On a tangent:
I had a similar discussion with another monk I met in RL, who said the h in human is never mute.
Wiktionary claims otherwise and it seems it's also typical for New York.°
I've heard already 3 variants in US TV shows 'yooman, hyooman and chyooman.
There is also a new tendency to pronounce Street as Shtreet and so on, which might enter the dictionaries soon.
°) Tho I've been already told that NY is not American ...
²) and so does Merriam-Webster:
\ fē-ˈȯrd , ˈfē-ˌȯrd; ˈfyȯrd \
variants: or less commonly "fiord"
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