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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]British speakers smush it so the syllables arent audible. Strwbry. Try saying it without moving your upper lip and youll hear it. Im from all over the South and use 3- straw bear-ry. I use the British pronunciation for advertisement, privacy, neither, either, vitamin, niche, etc. It makes more sense phonetically. [/quote] Most English words where a single consonant is followed by a single vowel and then another vowel (e.g prIVAcy or vITAmin), the first vowel is long. So, the American pronunciations are the ones which follow phonetic rules. That isn't to say that the British ones are wrong, but using them because they "make more sense" is idiotic. [/quote]
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