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Italian and Spanish and “Sangwitch”

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Why do some people pronounce the word sandwich as “SANG-witch”? It’s common among first-generation Italian and Spanish speakers trying to approximate that N-D-W combination of sounds, which don’t exist in their native language. The closest sound in their phonetic inventory is a Gsound. This is part of a complete episode.

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