http://www.englishforums.com/English/EnglishAudioSpeechPronunciation/Forum22.htmBritish, American, Scottish accent or using super-fantastic-high-tech software, we'll help you with pronunciation.enXMOD (Build: 3614.32638)http://www.englishforums.com/English/Pronunciation/gxpjc/post.htm#574724Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:30:48 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:574724Mister Micawber0http://www.englishforums.com/English/Pronunciation/gxpjc/post.htm#574724http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments22-574724.xml. 1-- Usage, which the lexicographers record. Some regional pronunciations are publicly vilified; others are publically glorified. 2-- Usage. No one studies Latin anymore. Foreign words drawn into any language tend to gradually acquire the local precedents of pronunciation. .http://www.englishforums.com/English/Pronunciation/gxpjc/post.htm#574712Sun, 24 May 2009 13:30:48 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:574712Anonymous1http://www.englishforums.com/English/Pronunciation/gxpjc/post.htm#574712http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments22-574712.xmlBasically I have two questions: 1.Who and/or what set the grounds and features of the English pronunciation? 2.Why are words such as "Video"(from Latin")pronounced in the English way? Thanks again!http://www.englishforums.com/English/Pronunciation/gxpjc/post.htm#574445Sun, 24 May 2009 13:30:48 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:574445Mister Micawber2http://www.englishforums.com/English/Pronunciation/gxpjc/post.htm#574445http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments22-574445.xml. What is your question? .http://www.englishforums.com/English/Pronunciation/gxpjc/post.htmSun, 24 May 2009 13:30:48 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:574398Anonymous3http://www.englishforums.com/English/Pronunciation/gxpjc/post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/comments22-574398.xmlI do candidly admit to my being overwhelmed and flabbergasted by the umpteen tricks of the English pronunciation.Apart from engaging in a lifelong struggle to try and master it(so to speak,of course)it has strongly aroused my curiosity about its genesis and shaping. I do apologize for my bad English but I do hope to make me understood.What I would like to know,what I am longing to know is who and/or what set the grounds of the English pronunciation. I am perfectly aware that the most important thing is to improve my pronunciation(I am too much in love with English-an unreciprocated love,I am afraid- and determined not to maul it too much),but it makes you feel good to know,while reading "Dearest creature in creation" who to...