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[QUOTE]Originally posted by TSN: [QB] I'm not sure what the accent is, but a lot of characters in Dickens' books pronounce 'v' like 'w'. Usually, they tend to be the less-educated characters, if that means anything. As a matter of fact, let me grab my copy of [i]A Tale of Two Cities[/i]. Jerry Cruncher talks like that all the time... <blockquote>"'... I might have made some money last week instead of being counterprayed and countermined and religiouslt circumwented into the worst of luck. ...and I won't put up with it, Aggerawayter, and what do you say now!'"</blockquote> Note the spelling used to reflect the pronunciation of "circumvent" and "Aggravater". And, as was mentioned another popular one is "vittles"/"wittles" (yes, the real word is "victuals"). I read Dickens a lot, and this sort of shows up quite often. BTW, I know a girl who's from Bosnia, but she's lived in the US for, I think, around eight years or so now (since she was, I guess, around eleven). She still has a very thick accent, and, in the couple years I've known her, I don't think it's become any more "American". So, just because someone is around people w/ a certain accent, it doesn't mean theirs will change. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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