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> As always, all of these pronunciations are legitimate and produce no misunderstanding.

I'm sorry but pretty much everyone who grew up with English as a second language would like to disagree.

Hearing "drawRing" to this day throws me off -- I have to repeat the noise to myself internally to make sure I understood it right.



> I'm sorry but pretty much everyone who grew up with English as a second language would like to disagree.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but their opinion doesn't count.

Foreign speakers have no say in what's legitimate and may be confused by absolutely anything.


If you wish to argue that, I'd suggest you guard your absolute clauses a bit more carefully, as they now suddenly aren't absolute. You said "produce no misunderstanding", I demonstrated that they do.


There are now many, many more foreign speakers of English than native. They definitely have had and are having an effect, collectively, on how the language evolves.




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