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Thoughts How do you pronounce the word "Answers" [Primarily asking native English speakers]

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So I saw a clip on YouTube when John Krasinski and Emily Blunt are playing a game called "Fishing for Answers" [not gonna explain what the game is as it's irrelevant].
If you don't know them, she is from England (I don't know which region) and he is from the U.S. (I don't know which state).

He says the name of the game first pronouncing it as "Ayansers" and she corrects him with "Arnsers" and they kinda argue about it (jokingly).

I remember thinking that they are BOTH wrong as the "A" is followed neither by a "y" or an "r".

I also realized that *I* also pronounce it incorrectly, as in the regional dialect where I am from*, we tend to pronounce words that END in "er" as an "ah" sound, so - out loud - I would pronounce it "Ansahs" (or, more accurately, "Ansahz").

Which made me wonder if ANYBODY says it right?
I wanna know where you guys are from and (think about it properly) how you would pronounce it.


*North East of England.
 
Pronunciations and the best of our abilities to make it come out right somehow
even with an accent.

Yes. Ann Sir. Not Ansire ? For sure.

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So I saw a clip on YouTube when John Krasinski and Emily Blunt are playing a game called "Fishing for Answers" [not gonna explain what the game is as it's irrelevant].
If you don't know them, she is from England (I don't know which region) and he is from the U.S. (I don't know which state).

He says the name of the game first pronouncing it as "Ayansers" and she corrects him with "Arnsers" and they kinda argue about it (jokingly).

I remember thinking that they are BOTH wrong as the "A" is followed neither by a "y" or an "r".

I also realized that *I* also pronounce it incorrectly, as in the regional dialect where I am from*, we tend to pronounce words that END in "er" as an "ah" sound, so - out loud - I would pronounce it "Ansahs" (or, more accurately, "Ansahz").

Which made me wonder if ANYBODY says it right?
I wanna know where you guys are from and (think about it properly) how you would pronounce it.


*North East of England.
I would have thought, 🐜+Sir.

🧐

But more importantly...
 
I would have thought, 🐜+Sir.

🧐

But more importantly...


"Huh, that's odd; I thought that would be big news...there seems to be the absence of a certain ornithological piece. A headline regarding mass awareness of a certain avian variety....oh, have you not heard? It was my understanding that everybody had heard..."
 
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