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Why do I sometimes pronounce my th's as f's and v's?
As Wikipedia explains, this pronunciation is called th-fronting. It involves pronouncing /θ/ and /ð/, the th sounds in death and clothe, as [f] and [v], respectively, making those words sound like ...
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Why is "sepulcher" pronounced the way it is?
Your conclusion is quite right! In general, stress shifts in words like these happened in English after they were borrowed from French into Middle English.
An old resource that discusses some examples ...
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How does one pronounce "dwam"?
This depends entirely on accent, although it's difficult to see how even rhotic accents could put r in it.
OED has
British English /dwɑːm/
American English /dwɑm/
Scottish English /dwam/
Those are ...
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rhotic sound in received pronunciation?
Hi, This is a British pronunciation according to the title. I can hear a rhotic /ɝ/ in the second syllable, however.
The word in question is generation. Non-rhoticity does not affect /r/s that are ...
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T turning into what sounds like a trill in Irish English?
As pointed out in the comments, what you're hearing there is flapping, the pronunciation of /t/ as voiced [ɾ]. This is most commonly associated with American English, but it can be found across ...
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Pronunciation difference b/w Python and Pyramid
When pronounced as a vowel letter, "Y" is generally equivalent to "I" and has the same two main pronunciations: "short i", the vowel found in the word "KIT", ...
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Sibilance/aspiration in the letter D in "don't", "day" etc
From the clips you shared, by "dead" /d/ I suppose you mean unaspirated /d/ (or maybe tapped /d/, see the last paragraph of this answer). With that, there's a section in "Cambridge ...
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How to pronounce "worried"?
Here in NSW there has been a sectarian division in pronunciation of "worry" and similar words where there's a Middle English historie :-) of "minims". For minims in general see ...
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