18th Mar 2017, 8:33 pm
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Heptode
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Southeast Norfolk, UK.
Posts: 773
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Re: The phonetic alphabet and the modern world.
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Originally Posted by emeritus
re #16, some years ago I had to call a company in Texas, and their automated switchboard asked you to speak the number of the extension you wanted. It did not recognize my British English pronunciation, and I had to say numbers in my best imitation of the sort of Texas drawl I had heard in cowboy films to get connected: fow-wer for 4, nine-er for 9, etc.
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Try https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjO1BXzZLpE for a similar example!
Roger
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