In article <4325c6c2$0$14375$636a55ce@news.free.fr>,
"Daniel Masse" <pas_de_spam_masse.dan@free.fr> wrote:
> Hello !
>
> I am French... hence my question : I always thought that the word
> "wilderness" was pronunced like "wild", but I heard americans from the NW
> pronuncing the word like "weelderness" : who is right ?
More like the word "will", followed by "-dnerness." "wild-erness" (to
rhyme with wild/ernest), sounds like the speaker is just being silly.
The "weelderness" is probably just an up-coast accent.
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