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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 10:45:39 +0000
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On 18/01/2025 03:50, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
> Granny came from a rural area of the jutland, 1800s,
>    so likely an 'older' pronunciation lived on there.
> 
>    Anyway, it was somewhere between "wooden" and "wouden" -
>    don't know all those funky pronunciation characters so
>    common in Europe. The "W" *was* in there.

If you here a person from that area say the 'ooo' sound its 
indistinguishable from the 'woo' sound anyway.

English has a different set of vowels. Our 'W' is much more distinct.


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