My native language is English and I haven't got a ... it the most burning on your mind this Sunday morning? The better your knowledge of phonetics and phonemics, the closer you can get, when learning a foreign language, to speaking ... you

Hi all, My native language is Estonian. Thus it's not ... phonemes or allophones of the same phoneme (in complementary distribution)? My native language is English and I haven't got a clue what you're talking about. I know, somehow,

The murder of the UN's man in Iraq has brought out the suckers for exoticism amongst announcers and correspondents at the Beeb. There is not the slightest justification to attempt to ape the Portuguese pronunication in news broadcasts in

(Cosiderable snippage) You wanted to know why I use them. That's why. Oh. Still, if they don't know whether you "really mean" what you write, how do they know whether you "really mean" whatever the smiley thing is

As long as the speech of the speaker in question ... and "lissen," we're talking about another example of phonetic spelling. Whoa. "Was" is pronounced by me and presumably by you like "wuz", but there are dialects

As long as the speech of the speaker in question ... "wuz" and "lissen," we're talking about anotherexample of phonetic spelling. Whoa. "Was" is pronounced by me and presumably by you like "wuz", but

As long as the speech of the speaker in question ... "wuz" and "lissen," we're talking about anotherexample of phonetic spelling. Whoa. "Was" is pronounced by me and presumably by you like "wuz", but

As long as the speech of the speaker in question is not represented with such spellings as "wuz" and "lissen," we're talking about another example of phonetic spelling. Whoa. "Was" is pronounced by me and