In Vowels^x

Hello Xpi0t0s I have some sympathy with your line of argument and think your friend should be soundly scolded To judge by the road signs local councils put up in my area contraction is pretty much a free for all It seems to depend on the point at which the sign maker suddenly realizes he s about...

It s known as the grocer s aspostrophe sandwich s sandwiches The apostrophe represents the vowel e If the writer speaker wasn t sure if s he should add es or s to form the plural s he found an ingenious way around it by using an apostrophe instead and that process wasn t just pulled out of thin...

Hehe Now it dawned on me You know it s not easy to find out sometimes we even have the silly question like this putting a before the word with the first letter pronounced as a vowel And it s easy for us to skip it over hehe

Hehe Now it downed on me You know it s not easy to find out sometimes we even have the silly question like this putting a before the word with the first letter pronounced as a vowel And it s easy for us to skip it over hehe

great question I think saying uh or that upside down e sound is most always going to sound normal to American English speakers But we do use the long a you spelled it ey to give a very slightly different meaning If I say I ate uh sandwich for lunch I mean my lunch was a sandwich and not something...

I would say No The only thing you have to communicate in addition to the one word in this artificial exercise is tone of voice I d lengthen the vowel and using a steady intonation or slightly falling intonation Raising the eyebrows would also be a good signal CJ

In American English the sound of s depends on which sound comes before it 1 If the noun ends in an unvoiced consonant sound f k p t th thin pronounce s as s 2 When it ends in a voiced consonant sound b d g l m n ng r or with a vowel sound a e i o u pronounce s as z 3 If it ends with s z sh ch...

Hello Hanuman I m not entirely certain about this since these are not phrases I m familiar with but your post is drifting unanswered towards page 4 so I ll do my best I would take strong in the context of verbs to mean verbs that don t simply add ed in the past participle p p For instance to make...

I have to agree with Guest Although there definitely is a w sound in out it should have its own classification The w in wind is a consonant sound but the pronunciation of out falls under vowels sounds au Same goes for cloud mouth account pronounce town shower etc

Enrico C wrote on 21 Nov 2004 One can always record one s own speech and compare it with a native speaker s rendition nq 1 On the contrary I think one can improve a lot if others listen to him her attentively and make him her notice change the sound even better if they can explain where their...