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pronouncing the word awoo the way republicans from the south pronounce the word arab

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at wolfgayng at eh-woo dawt space

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@wolfgang now i have to figure out what the correct pronunciation of wolfgang is because my default is wolfgayng, and the only other one that sounds plausible to me is wolfgong

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@SamIO most american english accents do insert a y sound there, but some southern accents just really lengthen it :)

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@SamIO back when i could still speak, i remember distinctly that after code switching with hebrew, id find myself sometimes saying /-æŋ/ without the /j/ and i always thought it made me sound fake british for that syllable

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