Dear folks: I have a pronunciation problem that's been confused me for a long time.As we may know,it is very important for paying more attention on stressed syllable,especially the vowel within it in a multi-syllable word.Here comes the

Just some additional comments. CalifJim wrote: First of all, I didn't think it was awful. (I mostly listened, not watching.) The following are some observations. It think that depends on your taste. For some people it's awful; for others

Here are my comments. The parentheses indicate that something is not part of General American-like dialects or RP, but is found in certain regional dialects.. CA R ------ American R's are always pronounced, British R's are not. In General American

LPD offers 3 pronunciations: The 1 st one (Main BrE) is with the first ‘o’ as a diphthong as in the word ‘show’(/ b /), the ‘y’ as a semivowel as in ‘city’ (/i/), the second ‘o’ as a schwa; the alternative BrE is to pronounce the ‘o’ as in ‘hot’

I say it something like "cow is" mushed together into one word (and without the "c", of course). But that's not exactly it. The first vowel is a little closer to the sound of "au" in "author": 'au-wizz' I guess. Sometimes a little bit of the

How do you pronounce the word "always"? I've noticed that most Northwesterners pronounce it "ahweez", while most people that I've met from California and Arizona tended to use a different vowel sound--it sounded to me something like , but I'm not

Thanks, anon. Without your post, I would have missed this thread. Goodman wrote: Hi CJ, What an impressive thread you have posted. You have slowly made me a fan of yours. Yep! CalifJim wrote: In any case, the struggle for

Frog? Clock has also that vowel. We have that vowel in Italian too. Why do you say it's weird? I think there is that vowel in American English, for those who distinguish "cot" and "caught". The vowel in frog (and hot and got, too) is indeed a

I have mentioned this before on this website, but I hope it will help you. I am poet who has made available freely about 240 of my own poems on the internet, but I have also added my clear English voice to each poem to help both overseas students