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Why does George Harrison pronounce "Bangladesh" as "Bongladesh"?

Pronouncing an "a" like an "o" isn't usually typical of the Liverpool accent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FximLndIco
MySecretIdentity1 · 46-50, M
Did you watch that, so-called documentary that was supposed to be about recordings of him explaining how Paul isn't really Paul?
NankerPhelge · 61-69, M
@MySecretIdentity1 I believe a lot of things, but not that.
MySecretIdentity1 · 46-50, M
@NankerPhelge What do you think I about the "clues"? Like "I buried Paul" vs. "Cranberry sauce" or the pictures on Sgt. Pepper's?
NankerPhelge · 61-69, M
@MySecretIdentity1 I don't think it's "I buried Paul" on "Strawberry Fields". As for the Sgt. Pepper cover, that's a different pair of socks altogether. It's rife with tantalising clues which some of my friends said the Beatles themselves put there.
SW-User
Maybe he's just used to having a bong... so it's a slip of the tongue?
NankerPhelge · 61-69, M
@SW-User Lol :)
MySecretIdentity1 · 46-50, M
That's how a friend who was a doctor for the state department stationed there pronounced it. That may be how it is pronounced by locals.
NankerPhelge · 61-69, M
@MySecretIdentity1 The only time I say "America" in a put-on American accent is when I'm quoting something like Alan Freed's statement that "Rock 'n' roll is not black music, it is not white music, it is American music".
MySecretIdentity1 · 46-50, M
@NankerPhelge I do the same thing with the Beatles. I try to talk like John or Paul.
NankerPhelge · 61-69, M
@MySecretIdentity1 I was in Beatleland (i.e. Liverpool) yesterday (no pun intended lol). I was surrounded by people with accents like John or Paul.
adorbz · 26-30, F
that’s how it’s pronounced by bangladeshis though so he’s doing it right and we’re doing it wrong 😅
MySecretIdentity1 · 46-50, M
@NankerPhelge Was I close? Growing up, my best friends were Londoners and their father had a Cockney accent.
NankerPhelge · 61-69, M
@MySecretIdentity1 Londoners don't even say "London" like the rest of us do. They say "Landon". Lol :)
MySecretIdentity1 · 46-50, M
@NankerPhelge My friends had hybrid accents. Their mother lived half of her life in Australia. So they had a kid of US, UK, and Australia.
We won't be able to ask him anymore will we ...

 
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