I now feel the need to go round asking people to count to five to hear how they say it I feel this could be your mission for the day. It would endear you to your colleagues no end.
Perhaps it's a north of Watford thing. I don't know. I pronounce one and won the same, not one and wan but I'm Essex (and have glottal l's)*. Mum's parents moved to run a guesthouse in Lowestoft when she was in primary school, and then moved to Southend but she's got residual bits of original West Midlands.
*A distant cousin once produced a Swedish boyfriend called Ulf and we spent an entertaining afternoon trying to get an elderly Essex great aunt to be able to pronounce his name as anything other than "Oof"
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I feel this could be your mission for the day. It would endear you to your colleagues no end.
Perhaps it's a north of Watford thing. I don't know. I pronounce one and won the same, not one and wan but I'm Essex (and have glottal l's)*. Mum's parents moved to run a guesthouse in Lowestoft when she was in primary school, and then moved to Southend but she's got residual bits of original West Midlands.
*A distant cousin once produced a Swedish boyfriend called Ulf and we spent an entertaining afternoon trying to get an elderly Essex great aunt to be able to pronounce his name as anything other than "Oof"