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  • Smwaug or Smorg ?
  • bencooper
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    Would you really pronounce taut sufficiently distinctly from tort or torte as to make any noticable difference?

    Definitely. Taut has no r sound in it, torte and torte do.

    Sandwich
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    fyi: mount everest should be pronounced ‘eve-rest’, not ‘ever-rest’ – bu it sounds wrong so it is wrong, i don’t care how right it is, it’s wrong.

    Or you could use the Tibetan/Sherpa name Chomolungma.

    robinlaidlaw
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    Another one for the baffled that anyone would pronounce any of these words with an r that isn’t written down. I’ve never heard anyone do that either. However, I am Scottish, which I suspect makes all the difference. Those of you insisting on Smorg, how do you pronounce Mirror? With a rolled r in the middle or more like meerr?

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    ahwiles
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    mirror = ‘mi-ruh’

    (sort of)

    dawn = ‘dorn’

    taut = ‘tort’

    smaug = ‘smorg’

    simple.

    (in lots of words au / aw = ‘or’)

    robinlaidlaw
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    Nope, au/aw always sound like the noise people make immediately before saying “how cute!” when cooing over babies and kittens. No r sound at all. And it’s obviously mirrr-or 😉
    I reckon it’s a dialect/accent variation thing.

    jimoiseau
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    I think the disagreement here comes from the dropped R in a British accent. Just imagine an American saying “taut” or “taught” and then saying “tort”, they would sound different in his accent and near identical in a standard (i.e. BBC) British accent.

    I suspect the same is true of a Scottish accent (they pronounce their Rs, where the English don’t).

    lemonysam
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    I suspect the same is true of a Scottish accent (they pronounce their Rs, where the English don’t).

    Ahhh… *penny drrrrrrops*

    BigDummy
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    Tolkien wrote a book, he did not actually create Middle Earth and the languages spoken by actual people resident there. I appreciate that I may be naive in this, and will be told the error of my ways by people who use the word “canon” a lot, but I don’t really care.

    This stuff exists chiefly in the reader’s head. In my head, Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights generally isn’t black and doesn’t speak with a Mancunian accent, because the idea that he ought to was not really impressed upon my 17 year old mind. The one in your head may well differ. I care only very slightly what Emily Bronte thought about the matter.

    🙂

    Drac
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    Tolkien wrote a book, he did not actually create Middle Earth and the languages spoken by actual people resident there.

    Oh dear.

    gonefishin
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    Would you really pronounce taut sufficiently distinctly from tort or torte as to make any noticable difference?

    Yes.

    Edit. Doesn’t everyone? I would however pronounce taut the same as taught.

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