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Welsh English....Diphthongs Please
note: the words and symbols below refer to the British English sounds. They
are only provided for comparison. Many of the Welsh sounds are quite different! |
| coat,
boat, stole,
bowl, old, roll, toe, no |
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| fear,
hear, ear, beer,
weir, mere, subsidiary |
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| fumes, cute, you, newt, queue | ||
| face, raise, amazing, straight, hate | ||
| fine,
behind, line,
kind, eye, I, my, sigh |
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| foul, about, flower, out, now, ouch! | ||
| foil, boy, toil, enjoy | ||
| truer, sewer, bluer, doer | ||
| one, wonder, worry, once | ||
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Our warmest thanks go to ...
| Speaker | Geographical origin | Date of recording | Approx age |
| Alison
Prosser Jeremy Prosser |
Neath,
South Wales Port Talbot, South Wales |
March
30th, 2001 March 30th, 2001 |
38 38 |
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