Mark Dominus on Nostr: In England the words "Derby", "Berkeley", and "clerk" can be pronounced with a vowel ...
In England the words "Derby", "Berkeley", and "clerk" can be pronounced with a vowel like in "cart" or "star". In American English the letter 'e' is never pronounced this way.
Is this a common pattern in British English? The first examples I checked, "pert" and "berm", are not pronounced this way according to the OED. Are there other examples?
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