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Re:The hardest aspect of learning English as a second language by cgriswald on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @11:28AM (#21826481)
> In British English, the name Bernard is pronounced with the final vowel as an unstressed, almost elided, obscure vowel; but it is a stressed long a in US English.

I don't think you can generalize the US pronunciation this way. Source: This was my grandfather's name.

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Re:The hardest aspect of learning English as a second language by kwhitefoot on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @01:41PM (#21827837)
Agreed. That was rather my point, and I defer to your more specific knowledge.

The point is that there are many ways to pronounce the same word even within one country.

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