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Leftenant?

Posted by jennifer gibson on Wednesday, October 1, 2014,



I was watching Sleepy Hollow and realized that Ichabod was pronouncing the word "Lieutenant" as "Leftenant". I had to put the show on pause and ponder about that.  I was supremely curious as to the origins of why it was said like that.

Since I'm Canadian and used to hearing and spelling certain words in a particular manner, such as "colour", "favourite" with the letter u in it since it denotes to our British ties, namely the Queen, I began to wonder why it sounds different on American shows. ...
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