‘Ave a butcher’s at this, then
Friday, January 25th, 2008I was thinking about the Northern accent, and much as Southerners like to make “foon” of it, there is more consistency to it than in the Southern accent.
Now I know English is nothing if not inconsistent, but why do we pronounce “put” and “butcher” differently from “but” and “gut”? No reason I can think of. So at least Northerners pronounce all “u” words in the same way. “Foony” or not.