hello I came across an interesting article about spelling: http://www.customessay.org/education.htm. Read and tell what you think. Thank you. That "essay" is horrible. It is full of the ponderous stringing together of large words

Before I could try to answer that, you'd have to tell me the difference in pronunciation between i and y. Mike. You might have missed my point. The point was spelling and not pronunciation. However, since you are interested in the ... one is

With all due respect to the Ukrainian brothers and the Fraternal Association, the bottom line, in my humble opinion, is an issue of political correctness and how much the English language should be involved in such I agree with it but I think the

J. W. Love: Adrian Bailey: What does this have to with "accuracy"? Jerry Friedman: The official transcript had the comma, so people quoting the speech should have included the comma. The "official transcript" either reports

Not quite. As a formal term of address, Miss and ... did not specify their (irrelevant) marital status, and proposed Ms. Which had already been in some use since the early postwar era in, for example, the bulk mailing domain. There's now some

That seems to be a statement of a property of Italian words rather than a definition. A property of Italian phonological words, you mean. I thought that was clear from the context. A property of Italian phonological words is a property of Italian

I was criticized in fr.lettres.langue.anglaise for using "eille" to represent ... second pronunciation you show above to be represented by "langeré." As I have heard it here, it comes out, to my ear, as (lOndZ@rei), a long,

Laura F. Spira typed thus: * I'm thinking of my pronunciation of "garage", (g@'rA:Z). Some ... The New Shorter Oxford has garage /"garA:(d)Z, -IdZ, g"rA:Z/ When I was young, and when few people had them in the crowded

"Half the world's population will be speaking or learning English by 2015, researchers say." As no-one has commented on this yet, I will do it myself: Given the high number of people who now speak, and according to that article, will

Wayne Brown filted: Chinese standardized spelling was probably generally welcomed, but the English speaker was still faced with a number of pronunciation problems. ... according to English-language criteria. I don't see any other solution. I