r/ENGLISH • u/PoxonAllHoaxes • 20h ago

Unique sounds

Some speakers (Chomsky f.ex.) have a unique diphthong in really (different from reel-y or rill-y). Some speakers have a unique vowel in gonna (similar to the "o" of German or Italian). I seem to have a unique vowel in because so that the famous rhyme of Oz : because : does actually doesn't work, and so on. I am interested in first of all other speakers who have any of these (esp.the latter two because the first one is well documented) and second in still more such unique sounds. I have a feeling I have a couple more myself, but I am not actually a native speaker (I learned at English at 10/11/12) so I don't count, tho presumably I picked up my vowels from SOMEONE. Consonants too of course if any.

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u/eren3141 20h ago

I can’t imagine oz and because ever rhyming? Is that a ‘famous rhyme’?

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u/Outrageous-Unit-305 19h ago

I'm English and they generally rhyme when spoken, at least in the south east. "Because" often is pronounced as bih-koz, rhyming with Oz.

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u/eren3141 19h ago

I’m English (midlands, but don’t have an identifiable regional accent) and pronounce it more like becuz, rhyming with buzz. I’ve never noticed anyone else say it differently but I’m intrigued now!

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u/baxbakualanuxsiwae 11h ago

I'm English (south coast), and because rhymes with Oz for me (bikoz). It doesn't rhyme with "does" though–that rhymes with buzz!

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u/NearlyNodding 10h ago

Midwest US.
I rhyme with Oz.
Bee coz

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u/ActuaLogic 6h ago

Those vowels are not unique. I've heard them "in the wild."