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Date: 2014-05-16 10:54 am (UTC)Maybe it's a matter of accent drift. Steerswomen are good at picking out accents, but since Rowan never comments on the accents of the wizards, they must be good at sounding like someplace familiar in the Inner Lands, and probably the area where they're based. That does not mean that they haven't developed their own accent. "Crew" in a Krue accent might sound different enough from the same word in the accents Rowan knows that she wouldn't recognize it as a familiar word, and if Will only ever heard the name of the wizard's people in their accent, he might pronounce it that way while otherwise
speaking in his normal just outside of the Crags accent.
Quick, do "Mary," "merry" and "marry" sound the same? Can you hear the difference between "pen" and "pin." The answer depends on the speaker's accent.