http://www.englishforums.com/English/EslGeneralEnglishGrammar-Questions/Forum12.htmAsk your questions on grammar and get your sentence checked. We answer lots of different types of general English grammar questions here. <font color=red>DO NOT post paragraphs and compositions here. Post them in our <a href="http://www.englishforums.com/English/EssayReportCompositionWriting/Forum9.htm"><b>Essay, Report and Composition Writing Forum</b></a>.</font>enXMOD (Build: 3614.32638)http://www.englishforums.com/English/HowToPronounceW/2/bqxgq/Post.htm#690162Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:44:57 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:690162Mister Micawber0http://www.englishforums.com/English/HowToPronounceW/2/bqxgq/Post.htm#690162http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-690162.xml. 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 &#39;double u&#39;. .http://www.englishforums.com/English/HowToPronounceW/2/bqxgq/Post.htm#690076Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:43:16 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:690076Anonymous1http://www.englishforums.com/English/HowToPronounceW/2/bqxgq/Post.htm#690076http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-690076.xmlThere are two ways to pronounce the letter &quot;W&quot;...........&quot;double u&quot; and &quot; dub u&quot;. I&#39;ve heard the former is the English pronunciation and the latter is American. Lisahttp://www.englishforums.com/English/HowToPronounceW/2/bqxgq/Post.htm#167312Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:33:34 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:167312Phuongninhbao2http://www.englishforums.com/English/HowToPronounceW/2/bqxgq/Post.htm#167312http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-167312.xmlI 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 Ninhhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/HowToPronounceW/2/bqxgq/Post.htm#167050Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:33:34 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:167050Mister Micawber3http://www.englishforums.com/English/HowToPronounceW/2/bqxgq/Post.htm#167050http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-167050.xmlIt 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...http://www.englishforums.com/English/HowToPronounceW/bqxgq/post.htm#166921Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:33:34 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:166921Phuongninhbao4http://www.englishforums.com/English/HowToPronounceW/bqxgq/post.htm#166921http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-166921.xmlI think you are very careful to pronounce this letter.It's very interesting for my students to pronounce //'d/\blju:/ the first time. They feel very melodious with this sound. They asked me to repeat more than ten times. You are not familiar with the monosyllable language so you don't know how it is important to pronounce//'d/\blju:/ instead of /'d/\bl/ /ju:/ or'd/\b/ /lju:/ . Cateran has reasons to say so.And another thing W in What and Wood is also a problem when we use American English . Phuong Ninnh /.http://www.englishforums.com/English/HowToPronounceW/bqxgq/post.htm#166580Sun, 24 May 2009 14:33:34 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:166580CalifJim5http://www.englishforums.com/English/HowToPronounceW/bqxgq/post.htm#166580http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-166580.xmlsomeone pronounced it as /'d/\bl/ /ju:/ ,but other people pronounced it as /'d/\b/ /lju:/ . Either is fine. Most people I know use the first of the two.http://www.englishforums.com/English/HowToPronounceW/bqxgq/post.htm#166421Sun, 24 May 2009 14:33:34 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:166421pieanne6http://www.englishforums.com/English/HowToPronounceW/bqxgq/post.htm#166421http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-166421.xmlYes, it' like when you recite the alphabet? Well, w is pronounced like a "double you". (double u)http://www.englishforums.com/English/HowToPronounceW/bqxgq/post.htm#166395Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:33:34 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:166395Cateran7http://www.englishforums.com/English/HowToPronounceW/bqxgq/post.htm#166395http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-166395.xmlI want to know the pronounciation of 'w' when 'w' is an alone letter not in any words. The dictionary says it's pronounciation is /'d/\blju:/ I have heard that someone pronounced it as /'d/\bl/ /ju:/ ,but other people pronounced it as /'d/\b/ /lju:/ . I don't know if you can understand what I said, but I hope. I did my best in describing the question.http://www.englishforums.com/English/HowToPronounceW/bqxgq/post.htm#166353Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:33:34 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:166353nona the brit8http://www.englishforums.com/English/HowToPronounceW/bqxgq/post.htm#166353http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-166353.xmlThe only one I can see that has a different pronounciation in this list is who (hoo). The others all have a standard 'w' sound. I can't think of any 'w' words that are pronounced differently, except in a very few cases of wh, where the 'w' is silent and it is pronounced 'h'. Cateran, Can you give us some examples of words you find pronounced differently?http://www.englishforums.com/English/HowToPronounceW/bqxgq/post.htm#166326Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:33:34 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:166326rishonly9http://www.englishforums.com/English/HowToPronounceW/bqxgq/post.htm#166326http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-166326.xmlHi Cateran. I think the letter 'w' has different form of pronounciations depending upon the word that uses 'W'. For example, each of the following words with 'W' as first letter has different pronounciations. Wood,will,wild,who, wire,wet,what..etc.http://www.englishforums.com/English/HowToPronounceW/bqxgq/post.htm#166302Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:33:34 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:166302Cateran10http://www.englishforums.com/English/HowToPronounceW/bqxgq/post.htm#166302http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-166302.xmlClive, It's a humor parlance. But I want to know the formal pronunciations. Cateranhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/HowToPronounceW/bqxgq/post.htm#166299Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:33:34 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:166299Clive11http://www.englishforums.com/English/HowToPronounceW/bqxgq/post.htm#166299http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-166299.xmlHi, Well, people who make fun of George W . Bush say that his friends in Texas call him ' Dubya '. Clivehttp://www.englishforums.com/English/HowToPronounceW/bqxgq/post.htmSun, 24 May 2009 14:33:34 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:166293Cateran12http://www.englishforums.com/English/HowToPronounceW/bqxgq/post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-166293.xmlI have heard two kinds of pronunciations for 'w'. The one is like 'double u'. The other is different from the one. Sorry, it's diffcult to describe the pronunciation for me. So I wonder if there are two correct kinds of pronunciations for 'w'.