I recently heard a BBC radio announcer pronounce "Wednesday" in a peculiar way. The 'd' wasn't dropped, resulting in something like "Wedinzday" (wɛdnzde).
I've read some Scottish dialects use this pronunciation. Is it class- or region-based? Something from RP or "broadcaster English"? Also, it doesn't appear that other words containing "dn" are affected (e.g. madness, midnight, etc.), so is this just a phonological anomaly?
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My parents are both from Northern Britain, my mother from Newcastle upon Tyne and my father from Glasgow. They both say "Wed'nzday". By contrast, I was brought up and live in the South-west of England, where the local pronunciation is "Wenzday"