One is wan

[nineveh_uk]

I have a stinking cold* and am looking what my father would describe as "pale and two". Which with my last post, requires a poll:

[Poll #2056140]


*Which at least has brought an end to the jaw/earache I was having last week that was beginning to make me have dark thoughts about wisdom teeth.

Comments

[white_hart]

When I have jaw/earache it's normally because I have been grinding my teeth in my sleep.

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

I'm unusual for an Irish person - a lot of us would go for option B. Hope you soon feel better!

[fallingtowers.livejournal.com]

I think you missed the option "pronounce won and wan with a v because my German accent is becoming more pronounced by the days" (aka the perils of working in an international team where English is the lingua franca, but most people are not native speakers...).

Hope you'll feel better soon! :)

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

I grew up in New England. I say one and won the same. Wan is different. Wan rhymes with swan, one and won rhyme with fun.

[ylla.livejournal.com]

After 5 weeks I had finally decided that I *wasn't* getting a cold, and that it was some kind of autumn anti-hayfever messing up my sinuses, only to discover I was wrong.

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

I think there's a subtle difference between 'wan' and 'one', for me. There definitely is in my head ('one' is a slightly deeper vowel), but whether anyone else would notice, I'm not sure. They're very definitely not the same as 'won', though, so I ticked (wan, one) != won for the purposes of the poll.

[littlered2.livejournal.com]

I think I pronounce wan to rhyme with "on", but it's one of those words which I never actually use because I am very vague on the pronuciation. "One" and "won" are deinitely the same as each other.