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Graham Spookyland🎃/Polynomial

@jonty oh no, all of the mess and none of the redeeming features!

Graham Spookyland🎃/Polynomial

@CatherineFlick @jonty I'm from the midlands and I don't say "free" for 3, and I don't know anyone else that does. seems to be a weird stereotype, like that we say "hospicle" (it's "hospi'ul", with a glottal stop, not a hard C sound)

Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

@gsuberland @CatherineFlick @jonty some people in London/Essex do pronounce three/free in a similar way, certainly enough to confuse systems like what3words...

Catherine Flick

@gsuberland @jonty my kid and all his friends do, maybe it’s a Leicester thing 😭😭😭😭

Colin Watson

@gsuberland @CatherineFlick @jonty I wouldn't generalize it to the whole Midlands, but my wife did most of her growing up in Shropshire and she genuinely cannot distinguish the sounds "f" and "th", either when speaking or when listening

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