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View Poll Results: Can you pronounce THREE?
I say Three as normal 33 86.84%
I say Three as normal
33 86.84%
I say Free but i mean Three 5 13.16%
I say Free but i mean Three
5 13.16%
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Old 12-02-2018, 09:57 AM #29
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Interesting brag for us Scots Josy: Scottish is a very "phonetically complete" accent, there are very few linguistic sounds that Scottish people struggle with, and no western ones .

We tend to glottal stop our "T" rather than fully enunciating them (e.g. "bu' 'er" instead of "butter") but its habitual not structural, meaning that if you say to someone who does it, "say it properly!", they CAN say "butter".
What about the Japanese/Spanish "rr"?

If I had trouble pronouncing something, I'd like to call butter 'butthurr" or something... bc it kinda sounds like butthurt
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