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Taking a break. Do English accents love or hate HIATUS?
Tuesday, December 17, 2024 - 18:19
English language speakers often avoid a HIATUS by bridging it with a connecting consonant sound. For example, we don’t say ‘a afternoon’ but ‘an afternoon’. We put an ‘n’ there to separate the vowels and link them together via a consonant. But certain accents of English, such as Modern British RP (Received Pronunciation), will go further to avoid any type of HIATUS between vowel sounds. 
