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It's very distinctive – people joke about the English Durbanities because of the way we pronounce things.
He added: "You have to have respect for the languages of places you travel to and pronounce things correctly".
You have to have respect for languages and the places you travel to, to pronounce things correctly".
I realized I better learn the right way to pronounce things or I was going to look really stupid". So he came to MIT as an unpaid research affiliate in Knight's lab and started taking biology courses.
"There is a tendency in this country to change names around, in order to appeal to the upper classes in a way that doesn't allow the lower classes to pronounce things correctly".
When English is your first language, you often have limited understanding of why and how you pronounce things because you learned it as a child.
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There's some fairly ropey singing, to be honest, and some painful intonality, but it's funny to hear how they pronounced things in those days, especially the rolled Rs, like in "more" or "afar" or "beware".
Businessman Omar Miftah, squatting on the pavement in a white robe as he listened to the sheikh's sermon, was blunt about the meaning of what had happened: "Without Gaddafi," he pronounced, "things can only get better".
It didn't feel like nostalgia; it was more like anticipation, the excitement of looking forward to a wonderful evening with an old friend who has such an interesting way of pronouncing things when she speaks and sings, those round "o"s and drawn-out "love"s and "you know"s.
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