Mister Micawber  +  167050 Wed, 07 Dec 05 12:34 AM It is not necessary to be particularly 'careful' pronouncing the letters of the alphabet, Phuong Ninnh.  There are many points of more importance in learning the language.  Jim's comment is accurate: someone pronounced it as /'d/\bl/ /ju:/ ,but other people pronounced it as /'d/\b/ /lju:/ . Either is fine. The variation is individual, or at most, regional. The pronunciation of the phoneme that /w/ represents within various words is a more serious problem for some EFL/ESL students (for Japanese students it is the lost /w/ in /wou/ words like wood and woman), although the aspirated /wh/ is not a particularly difficult case-- it is in fact unaspirated by many (most?) native speakers, so that the conversational what can usually be represented by /w/\t/. Mister Micawber Joined on Wed, Aug 4 2004 Yokohama Veteran Member 30,788 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master-- that's all.' Pronunciation

	Phuongninhbao  +  167312 Wed, 07 Dec 05 04:32 PM I agree with you but we can't follow you because we  don't have some condition to practice with new means of learning English, besides cassette.There are a lot of ways to pronounce but I should choose the best to teach my students.I teach  all thing they like. They like to sing..OK. I do my best to help them to imitate  like the singers And luckily our cassette seems old. And they like it.It 's easier to follow .I wish one day all people around me accepted  the way to speak like an American. Phuong Ninh Phuongninhbao Joined on Fri, Nov 11 2005 hcm city Full Member 134 phuongninh Learning English

	Mister Micawber  +  690162 Mon, 23 Mar 09 10:44 PM . Not really true, Lisa.  Although many speakers in all English-speaking countries (most notoriously GW Bush) reduce the pronunciation of many words, the only correct name of the letter remains 'double u'. . Mister Micawber Pronunciation, Countries, United States, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Speaking, Chat, Friendships, Languages