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   These fairly cheezy sound clips demonstrate some common pronunciations.    I repeat the word in common english and then in elizabethan.    These were taken off the built-in mike on a powerbook, so theres some background noise.

   Perhaps the most obvious sound difference is that of the R sound like that of mother .   The R sound is drawn out into a pirate ARRRRRRRRR .   This becomes trying in words like father where the A is pronounced like apple but the R is enunciated.   Father is thus pronounced  F-aaaa-th-rrrrrrr .

   The most popular of the pronunciations is the want sound, iterated over and over with words like: father, water, salt, and fall.   Combining these next to hard R 's starts to twist the tounge. Here's a cheery greeting similar to the one I receive when I arrive home.

Here are some excellent accent drills. These were apparently penned by the washer women at RPFN.

Here is how to pronounce the beginning of the 23rd psalm from the King James Bible of ~1611.

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