bread

Pete   Tue Apr 07, 2009 1:33 pm GMT
I pronounce "bread" more like "braird". It doesn't sound like "bred". Anyone else do this?
Skippy   Tue Apr 07, 2009 2:12 pm GMT
Nope. It's /bred/ everywhere I've lived.
Caspian   Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:36 pm GMT
It's "bred" for me!
--   Thu Apr 09, 2009 11:29 am GMT
Where are you from? Because I've heard of a few accents in which this happens, but I can't remember which ones off the top of my head.
Lazar   Thu Apr 09, 2009 12:43 pm GMT
Pete, are you Australian? That's the only dialect in which I've heard of the "bread-bred" split occurring.
Dipak   Thu Apr 09, 2009 1:28 pm GMT
Even I haven't heard any one pronouncing it the way you do.
Pat   Thu Apr 09, 2009 3:06 pm GMT
It's /brEd/ here.
Pete   Thu Apr 09, 2009 11:27 pm GMT
<<Pete, are you Australian?>>

Yes.