On 25 Nov 2003, Bob Martin wrote -snip- In other words, do you adopt a strongly rhotic pronunciation ... and by your yardstick other versions must therefore be "incorrect". Harvey, considering someone to be an "insufferably precious

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According to Google the British pronunciation is "quick-sote"whereas the US ... or"donkey-shot". How do you experts here handle this one ? I'd say no middle ground either "QUICK-sote" or the original(well,

I am not! Listen to RP television presenters - many of them (but not all)speak like this! If by "RP" you mean "Received Pronunciation", there are no longer any such television presenters. All British television presenters speak

How is "Mbyte" pronounced? Is there anyone pronouncing it as ... as "mega-byte", when it is supposed to mean "1000 Kbytes"? No. People who mean exactly 1000 kb rather

It's an elliptical definition. I read Ross's line as meaning "(the vowel contained in) cot, bother...". That's still meaningless. There is no vowel that is contained in every rendition of "cot". The vowels that may

( . . . ) I find that I can switch between "bother-sans-b" and "father-sans-f" without moving my lips in the slightest, a bit like a vent would do, perhaps. This shows that you don't speak the English accent that has been

X-No-Archive: yes It was the existence of the sound feature on the COD CD-ROM that enabled the BBC to ... a couple of bods who were always on hand to answer questions that cropped up during recording of programmes. It's still going as the BBC

Thus spake Charles Riggs: In, I believe, all native-speaker English dialects, "fill" and "feel" ... generally use /I/ and /i/, respectively, to represent these phonemes. What's so *** good about it? Alls you need, instead