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Jos BS: Regional UK Accents (137* d) RE: BS: Regional UK Accents 31 Jul 21

I've heard some odd pronunciations lately. I suspect that people are learning new words by reading instead of hearing them, so they guess at how to pronounce them.
A recent example was 'hyperbole', which was pronounced as 'hyper-bowl', like some superlative kind of Superbowl.

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