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

[gbsteve.livejournal.com]

And on further analysis of the situation it seems I might shift bewteen joon and dyoon depending on whether I'm talking to my Mum (posh Bromley) or Dad (Not posh Eppin').

Of course the word that really stumped me was Beaulieu.

[bibliogirl.livejournal.com]

"dyoo" for me is that damp stuff on the grass in the morning...

[mr-malk.livejournal.com]

I vary to be honest. Both accent and dialect will wander around the country depending on my mood at the time, and what I think will sound most effective!

Answers given are my default settings (as it were), although my Yorkshire accent thickens up quite regularly. In fact, the Yorkshire accent is as much an affectation as any other. Whitby, where I grew up, has an accent that is all its own, and I don't speak that naturally at all - I didn't like the accent growing up, and so decided not to adopt it. My sister on the other hand speaks nothing but.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I always get confused by questions like this and I never quite know how to answer them. You'd have to ask me in person to read out a sentence with the above words in it. The more I think about it, the less certain I get.

[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' ;)

[fractalgeek.livejournal.com]

Due was the most difficult to pick I suspect I use more than one.

[ninthcouncil.livejournal.com]

I'm sure I also oscillate between dy-- and j-- depending on context and audience. I suspect "due" is most likely to go to the initial j, "duel" least. Also, the surrounding sounds probably affect things - I think I'm more likely to say "sanjoon" for "sand dune" than "joon" for "dune", for instance.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

"Trying-too-hard middle-class" in that my mum was the child of dirt-poor farmers and thus rather class-anxious, despised what she called 'country' or 'rough' accents, and had taken elocution lessons, but went pure Monaghan when she was angry.