, we are able to communicate in English if we know 1000 words. IT IS THE EASIEST LANGUAGE

Hi Avangi, it's pretty complicated, I'll try to explain it better. I'll use an equivalent phonetic transcription to avoid IPA, because I heard not everyone can see the symbols. MW breaks the words into syllables in phonetic transcriptions

Hi, this is a weird question. I once discovered that syllable are important for pronunciation. For example, Merriam Webster says that coolish is coo-lish, not cool-ish. The reason must be that in coo-lish, the L is put at the beginning of the

CalifJim wrote: I thought you were only looking for irregular verb forms. I am indeed looking for something like irregular verb forms. The comparison with bays, days, etc. is just a remark. But what is intriguing is that says is not an

I cannot find any word with ay or ai that is pronounced this way, except those with -says or -said at the end. I thought you were only looking for irregular verb forms. again and against also have ai as a lax e , if that's what you want

Pter wrote: Do you say /ˈnɒk.i.a/, /ˈnəʊk.i.a/ or /ˈnoʊ.ki.a/? Every vowel is pronounced clearly and never diphthongized in Finnish, so using the IPA symbols, the pronunciation is . The sound is pretty much the same as the British

Hi, It has been my experience that students become lost when consulting dictionaries with regard to phonetic symbols as many times each one uses different phonetic symbols. This has caused much grief and I just tell my online students to stay

finite indeed has the tense i in both syllables. The tense vowel is the typical pronunciation for the last syllable of all two-syllable words ending in -ate, -ete, -ite, -ote, -ute, even when the first syllable has the primary stress, as in the

According to EPD, there’re 2 pronunciations to the name ‘Danielle’. The 1 st one has 3 syllables in it. Pronounce the ‘a’ as a short vowel sound (as in ‘at’). This is the one with the secondary stress placed on it. Utter the ‘i’ as the long ‘e’

Hi David, here you can find some stuff about American English. Vowels, consonants, lots of stuff... http://evaeaston.com/pr/home.html On that website there's also a link to this page, where the states are pronounced.