You could use 'round sounds' instead of vowels, to get the breast pun through; considering that most consonants aren't particularly round.

Paracite said:

You could use 'round sounds' instead of vowels, to get the breast pun through; considering that most consonants aren't particularly round.

I wouldn't want to confuse ESL speakers though, who might think that "the wolf" or "the one" are pronounced as "thee wolf" and "thee one". The approximants are particularly problematic.

(Strictly speaking, roundedness is a vowel property, while the equivalent property for non-vowels would be labialization. [Personally, I think the distinction is mostly academic]. The problem is that all of this can be perceived as "round sounds" by a layman, adding to the confusion.)

Also, there are vowels that are not round, like the classic [a]/"aaah", and its close relative [ä] found in Atago.

Ah, the NZ accent has a slightly different distribution of the pronunciation of 'the'. Which I keep forgetting, like, all the time. (we also use rounded vowels a little more than some other dialects of English)

Dang linguistics, always getting in the way of a good joke.

This is why I have to leave posts like this to expert translators like Paracite and NNescio. Q_Q

OMGkillitwithfire said:

This is why I have to leave posts like this to expert translators like Paracite and NNescio. Q_Q

I feel the same too.

Paracite said:

Ah, the NZ accent has a slightly different distribution of the pronunciation of 'the'. Which I keep forgetting, like, all the time. (we also use rounded vowels a little more than some other dialects of English)

Dang linguistics, always getting in the way of a good joke.

Fush and chups, feesh and cheeps?