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Originally Posted by henk4

we caaan't or we ceen't..just as an example to what extent English has been abused all over the world...

Another linguist heard from!

First it was Ingolstadt finding it "very wrong" that English speakers change the pronunciation of foreign words. (He didn't seem to have a problem with the fact that speakers of other languages do exactly the same thing.) Now you seem to be criticizing the language because speakers of English "abuse" the pronunciation of English words!

Hey, even a tiny country like the Netherlands has regional accents! What do you expect from the most widely spoken language in the world?

By the way, where in the world is "can't" pronounced "ceen't"? (And so what if it is?)

Diddy