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Why is the "e" in "sergeant" pronounced like "a"?
Is it a British thing like their pronouncing "clerk" like "clark" and turning "person" into "parson"?
The only answer so far seems to refer to the "ea" diphthong but I was referring to the first "e."
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- ?Lv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
English teacher years ago taught me that if there are two vowels together in a word, that you pronounce the sound with the first vowel. e.g. sar gent.
A former classmate's last name is Eaddy and I always had trouble remembering the right pronunciation until she reminded me of Mrs. Brown. So her names is said as Eddy (as in Eddie) and not Addy.
Mrs. Brown also said not to "leave that preposition hanging in the air" meaning not to end a sentence with a preposition as in "what did she go for" or "where did she go at" and similar ones.
One of the things I have noticed with newscasters now is their use of double subjects. I cringe when I hear them and reckon Mrs. Brown is constantly turning over in her grave: The police they . . . :
the boy he. . .' the girl she . . . and so on.
Source(s): English minor
