I've known several people that pronounced their v's as w's and vice versa.
One of them was from Ireland and one was from then Yugoslavia so...
Shall we read "Great Expectations"?
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Primula Baggins
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Sam Weller talks that way in Pickwick, and if I remember right, his father takes it a bit further, pronouncing his own name "Veller." But it's been a while since I read that one.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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Túrin Turambar
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I finished the book, and I couldn't figure the w/v thing out. It only seemed to show up in the beginning. Might have just been an oddity of the speech of the two characters who use it (Joe and Magwich).
On a side note, Great Expectations always makes me depressed - I think I just get too involved in the story. I need to go on a Great Expectations rehab program.
On a side note, Great Expectations always makes me depressed - I think I just get too involved in the story. I need to go on a Great Expectations rehab program.