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Hi what s the difference in pronunciation between writing and riding I once heard that some people distinguish them by the first vowel Who distinguish them and how Who doesn t Thanks

Xam0 wrote There is definately an upstate NY accent The vowels in the middle of some words are either changed or pronounced as dipthongs Ill put the normal spelling of some words followed by the upstate NY pronunciation and then the north jersey pronunciation where im from which is fairly...

W is considered a vowel only because of words like hollow and follow and mellow In the soda Mello Yello they don t put the w s why because you don t need them to make the O sound It s not hollowuh and people who drink the soda don t spaz when there s no w on the end it doesn t change the...

And similarly we would write an for expressions like sending out an SOS where s is a consonant but the pronunciation ess starts with a vowel sound

It seems to me that you are wrestling with the Second Letter Rule which says that a single vowel letter i e not combined with another vowel letter in a digraph is pronounced tense if the second letter after it is another vowel letter lax otherwise lady caddie hope hop hoping hopping June junk...

I want to explain to my students the reasons behind the difference in pronouncing write and written is that written has double Ts How can I tell them about this Whether it s written with 2 t s or 3 t s or no t s has absolutely nothing to do with why it s pronounced like that And to properly...

Hi there I am a non native English teacher I want to explain to my students the reasons behind the difference in pronouncing write and written is that written has double Ts How can I tell them about this Second question I want to tell students the correct of pronunciation of Donald It should not...

Anonymous wrote The American pronunciation of o in your next example wouldn t be found in any regional accent of British English that I can call to mind immediately though there is considerable variation in the pronunciation of this sound for example in Scotland Liverpool and the West Country...

the pronunciation of RMA is something like arimay so you use an an because it sounds like it starts with the vowel sound a

It s rather hard to work out quite what you are looking for here Some of these features as Marvin A was pointing out are not specifically American English pronunciation but the allophonic variation that occurs in connected speech That is the pronunciation of some sounds is influenced by the...