You've got anuvver fing coming, ven. ELF might mark the end of dental fricatives as we know vem. What's more, ... she proposes that native speakers need to undergo retraining so that they themselves use the modified pronunciation of the

Looking to see what British dictionaries say about syllable division in "Mary", I'm reminded once again that the New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary ( NSOED ) makes no attempt to show syllabification of any words. However, the

Anyway, "el agua" is not confusing, since there is ... the masculine article ("el águila", "el hacha", etc.) for euphony. No they don't all use the "masculine article." Why do Spanish teachers keep

Anyway, "el agua" is not confusing, since there is a rule that all words beginning with a tonic (a) use the masculine article ("el águila", "el hacha", etc.) for euphony. No they don't all use the "masculine

The maximum onsets principle isn't universally accepted. See http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/syllabif.htm which ... /n/ goes in the third syllable because of stress.) Jonathan Who is Wells? Professor of phonetics at University College

: So how does the rule on "u" and "a" or "an" work (or all the vowels for that matter)? Why is it a university, but an umbilical cord? Because of the pronunciation, not the spelling. University is pronounced

Of course learning a language is difficult. It takes time, effort, energy, etc. Maybe you mean "difficult" in relation to other languages. If that's what you mean, then I would say the answer is "no". The first time I came

In article Incidentally is the military pronunciation of "route" as "rowt" common in the UK military as well as in the US? I've not come across it here, but then I don't have many dealings with the military of either