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Help Pronounced as “Hope”

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Joe in Huntsville, Alabama, says an elderly friend consistently says hope to mean help. For more than a century, some speakers in parts of the Southern United States drop the L sound before another consonant in words, which then affects the adjacent vowel. This is part of a complete episode.

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