Dune mess ear?

[undyingking]

Quick pronunciation survey. In each case, pick the one that's closest to your version – it doesn't have to be absolutely exact. (And 'ə' is a schwa, ie. a neutral 'uh' type of vowel sound.)

If you use different pronunciations in different contexts, answer the commonest one and expand in a comment. Likewise if you have a pronunciation that's not like any of the options…

[Poll #1729985]

Comments

[kauket.livejournal.com]

My accent, pronunciation and my tone of voice changes when I'm in Court. I have what others have described as an 'advocacy voice' which is a lot posher and gentler than my usual voice, I think. When I speak to clients I try to make my accent less posh, but I end up sounding like a posh person trying to sound 'street' ;)

[secondhand-rick.livejournal.com]

You just need to add 'innit?' to the end of everything for that to work, don't you, innit?

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Mm, I'm quite lucky I got a good solid grounding in 'talking common' when I was a kid -- I don't think I could successfully fake it now otherwise ;-)

I wonder how juries react to poshness of lawyers' voices: might a really really posh one alienate them?