Not long ago, Swedish TV showed the seemingly never-ending Australian soap "Prisoner". One of its characters, a prisoner named Lizzie Birdsworth, has the habit of making a certain exclamation which, I assume, meaning-wise (or

As far as I know 'a unique' is correct because in that case 'u' is not a vowel but a semi-consonant (or semi-vowel) like in university, unify, uniform, utopia and many with the sound -/ju/ at the beggining of the word.

A certain punfeister who shall remain nameless was all agogh ... in go-cart) or gock (as in loch, lock), or otherwise? I'm ingliend to pronounce it "Goch" as in "Loch", but I think that in Dutch (as in Afrikaans)

Our friends in the British media are nothing if not keen on multi-culti empathy and showing ‘respect' for alien modes. As far as the Hispanic world is concerned, there was the spasmodic pronunciation of the UN Secretary-General Perez de

Richard, how many phonemes do you have in your accent? ... trying to decide on theprecise phonemic inventory of my accent. /p/ "pop" /b/ "bib" /f/ "fee" /v/ "verve" /t/ "tot" /d/ "dad"

"U is a vowel spelling, but it has the consonant sound Y in words like use, universal, usual, etc.". I ... "y" for me. Is anyone able to explain me why the "u" of "use" is supposed to sound like

Hi! I'm studying for the TOEFL which I'm going to take in Vancouver in about three weeks. During my studies with BARRON'S "How to prepare for the TOEFL" I've come across a problem I don't really understand: The

On the other hand, there are almost certainly distinctions made in English that are not made in Finnish, and for these the English ear will be "more sensitive". Looking at http://newsroom.finland.fi/finfo/english/finnish3.html it would

Oy! Is there any respect in which the Finns, in your view, are not superior to the rest of humanity? It is not a matter or superiority, it is a matter of language usage. You can tell by the mispronunciation of Finnish words by people learning the

The Finnish ear is more sensitive than the English ear Oy! Is there any respect in which the Finns, in your view, are not superior to the rest of humanity? It is not a matter or superiority, it is a matter of language usage. You can tell by the