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Old 02-04-2016, 06:50 PM   #74
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Originally Posted by issybird View Post
It sounds just plain wrong to me in American English! I have never heard anyone actually say "kway." To me, it's a backward justification for how people who don't know better think it's pronounced, because they've only ever seen it.
Well, then I suppose most American pronunciations could be considered backwards although the dictionaries I looked it up in didn't say it was British versus American (sometimes they do distinguish the two).

But then, I've not only never heard anyone say "kway" I've never heard the word at all.
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