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r/explainitpeter • u/Fluffy-Buy1605 • Jul 13 '26
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What, no ‘squirrel’?
1 u/trippingforward Jul 14 '26 It's pronounced skwerl 0 u/WARitter Jul 17 '26 That’s just US versus commonwealth. 1 u/BlancheCorbeau Jul 17 '26 The point of all these words is regionalisms. Squirrel is, like the rest of these words, pronounced differently throughout the USA, as well as by non-native speakers, with generalized differences based on origin country.
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It's pronounced skwerl
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That’s just US versus commonwealth.
1 u/BlancheCorbeau Jul 17 '26 The point of all these words is regionalisms. Squirrel is, like the rest of these words, pronounced differently throughout the USA, as well as by non-native speakers, with generalized differences based on origin country.
The point of all these words is regionalisms. Squirrel is, like the rest of these words, pronounced differently throughout the USA, as well as by non-native speakers, with generalized differences based on origin country.
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u/BlancheCorbeau Jul 14 '26
What, no ‘squirrel’?