"Rather", as I've mentioned, is also a different phenomenon: the"ah" pronunciation is more archaic, and is retained in some areas andsome accents which never developed the "ah" in words like "half"

It seems that every time I post a comment it provokes a load ofdiscussion threads. But not to be detered, ... changes. Forinstance, they say " 'ospikal" when they mean "hospital", or "ee 'ant gotnone" instead

Wisdom and logic might lead us to take just the really hard spellings and change them. Dropping alot of silent letters and silent spaces? would be an obvious place to start. Letter combinations that just don't make sense could be the main ones

Redundancy of the week: a reporter spoke of the "official state visit" made by GWB. OED has 'state visit, a visit by a head of state to a foreign country for ceremonial rather than official purposes' so it seems a 'state

Just encountered a 1963 recording by Johnny O called "Meet The Bongo Man", and there's something odd about his pronunciation of the most important word in that title...I'm hearing it as /'bONoU/ where previous experience

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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,

No lip rounding for "schön"? You must not be saying it right. No rounding for "Schein", though. Depends on how much I stress the word, and no, I'm not using the dialect pronunciation that has something like ... to produce