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nineveh_uk ([personal profile] nineveh_uk) wrote2016-10-23 09:49 am
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One is wan

I have a cold, and an LJ poll on one, won, and wan.
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[personal profile] clanwilliam 2016-10-23 11:14 am (UTC)(link)
You forgot Hiberno-English with two different pronounciations of wan: "Yer wan is looking wan".
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[personal profile] nineveh_uk 2016-10-23 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Damn! I didn't know it could be spelt like that (I always think of it as wean, given the way a couple of non-Irish friends say it).
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[personal profile] clanwilliam 2016-10-24 01:21 pm (UTC)(link)
But wean is Scottish and Norn Irish for baby, but wan is nearly always an adult. "Did you see the state of yer wan?" And I do pronounce them differently.

Wean - shortened of "wee un".
Wan and wan - short a if pale, long a if a state.
Edited 2016-10-24 13:22 (UTC)
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