Who pronounces foreign words like PASTA right? 🇺🇸 or 🇬🇧?
Dr Geoff Lindsey Dr Geoff Lindsey
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 Published On Nov 22, 2022

A discussion of the different ways American and British English pronounce loanwords from other languages.

Thanks to @Teverell for Vigo, Kent, another Spanish placename in the UK. Various commenters pointed out Gibraltar.
In my haste I grabbed a logo with Ukrainian Гаррі, not Russian Гарри. Ой.
Yes, I did measure Australian 'pasta' too, with its fronter 'father' vowel, but I ran out time to include the data in this video. More at AusE in future!

Vietnamese from https://forvo.com/

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