Oven or Oven?

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And "Uven" in Yorkshire too.
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Alexia
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timgraham wrote:
Mr Q wrote:Uh-ven. I've never heard anyone say Oh-ven - but then we do have our own bizarre (and often grating, at least to my ears) pronunciations over here too.
That doesn't make it right!

Remember that brits also have a habit of saying "yoghurt" to rhyme the first bit with jog, and pasta to rhyme with mass. Which is clearly just wrong (Ben O'Donoghue made a point of this if anyone ever watched that marvelous cooking show The Best).
Why - do you say the Loyd-Grossman-esque "Yow-ghurt" and "Parstar" ? Bloody colonials.
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Alexia wrote: Why - do you say the Loyd-Grossman-esque "Yow-ghurt" and "Parstar" ? Bloody colonials.
Parsta.

Call it youthful rebellion.
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