South African English Pronunciation: an online guide: Other Sounds

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South African English Other Sounds

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Please note: the words and symbols below refer to the British English sounds. They
are only provided for comparison. Many of the South African sounds are quite different!

		middle, modal, puddle, little, it'll, metal ("lateral plosion")
		couldn't, mightn't, had never, Britain, Briton ("nasal plosion")

		you and me, James and Clarissa
		want to go (or 'wanna go'); going to go (or 'gonna go' or 'genna go'); with "d": got to go; with "t": liked to, had to go
		should have, could have, would have
		should not have, could not have, would not have
		"I would not do that if I were you"
		"I would have ignored them"
		"You should not have done that"

		Light: leg, loop, illegal Dark: little, pool, tickle, conceal, girl

		"I found them with some others at a pub not far from the hotel."

		"Where are theirs?" "They're there." "No, they aren't" "Well that's where they were."
		situation, action, nation, rational, shenanigans

Our warmest thanks go to ...

Speaker	Geographical origin	Date of recording	Approx age
Unnamed Unnamed	Johannesburg Natal	Feb 10, 2006 Feb 10, 2006	50 22

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