Firstly, there is, effectively, no ‘correct’ way to pronounce any damn thing. Languages belong to those who use them. RP English is no more correct than Delhi English, or Alabama English for that matter.
Secondly, I have English speaking friends from just about every US state, and so many countries, and I have never once heard one pronounce foreign as “fore-ayn.” I’d love to know what dialect you speak.
Received is the except after C rule. Foreign uses the same ay sound as neighbor.
Keith is a better one, but it’s a proper noun so a lot of rules for spelling are ignored.
Foreign does not use the same sound as neighbor.
nAYbor
forEN
It absolutely doesn’t have a hard E vowel sound. Except when my deep south relatives say it.
I’m sorry… foreign and neighbor do not use the same sound
It does when you pronounce it correctly.
Firstly, there is, effectively, no ‘correct’ way to pronounce any damn thing. Languages belong to those who use them. RP English is no more correct than Delhi English, or Alabama English for that matter.
Secondly, I have English speaking friends from just about every US state, and so many countries, and I have never once heard one pronounce foreign as “fore-ayn.” I’d love to know what dialect you speak.
Nope.