> Not especially, but the English tongue does have a lot of history behind
> it so it's inevitable that over the centuries some words get
> "bastardised" and the modified form becomes the norm.
>
> The of course you have regional dialects which can quite dramatically
> change the pronunciation of a word. I'm sure you hear this in the US
> just as much as we do in the UK.

For example, why does "Arkansas" not rhyme with "Kansas"?


 - David Meiklejohn

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