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Hi Avangi,it's pretty complicated, I'll try to explain it better. I'll use an equivalent phonetic transcription to avoid IPA, because I heard not everyone can see the symbols.MW breaks the words into syllables in phonetic transcriptions according to how the words would be pronounced syllable by...

Hi,this is a weird question. I once discovered that syllable are important for pronunciation. For example, Merriam Webster says that coolish is coo-lish, not cool-ish. The reason must be that in coo-lish, the L is put at the beginning of the following syllable so that it's clear it's not as dark...

I cannot find any word with ay or ai that is pronounced this way, except those with -says or -said at the end. I thought you were only looking for irregular verb forms. again and against also have ai as a lax e, if that's what you want examples of. And all the air combinations also have ai...

Not all words work the same way! The plural of cactus is cacti, but I've learned here the plural of status (in Latin) is status, with a different pronunciation. (And we're not talking in Latin anymore anyway.) Just like sing takes sang in the past, while bring takes brought, not all word with...

finite indeed has the tense i in both syllables. The tense vowel is the typical pronunciation for the last syllable of all two-syllable words ending in -ate, -ete, -ite, -ote, -ute, even when the first syllable has the primary stress, as in the examples below. innate, vacate, vibrate,...

Hmmm... Aaaaargh! Looks complicated, lol. Thanks a lot.MW always seems to list different pronunciations, but it seems it's the most reliable now. The only one who says "hydrocarbon" with the stress on HY, etc.And you know, about that oh vs uh, that's interesting... half-tense... could be! I hear...

No Death by Guru at all, Toughcookie-- but I don't think that correcting any of the three pronunciations is really that more important than the others. I have one student who assiduously pronounces what should be /t/ endings so strongly as /d/ that his past tenses are often unintelligible; I...

Forbes wrote: Cool Breeze wrote:Fortunately English is structurally so simple... ?Hi ForbesIn the days of Old English the grammar of the language was more complicated than it is today: nouns had three genders, and there were even strong masculines as there are in modern German, 's' wasn't the...

Also, Bob can use the progressive tense to show his insistence. In the US, we often slow down the progressive pronunciation to give it even more emphasis.