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Is was wondering if there is any difference between 'better' and 'bed or...' in American English. At least previously I thought that the vowel preceding the letter 'd' is longer in 'bed or', since it is followed by a voiced consonant in any English dialect. After these replies to the original...

1) Here are some links with better explanations than I could probably give. http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/presentperfect.html http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/pastperfect.html 2) "An" is easy. You always use it before you talk about a noun that starts with a vowel. Exception: if...

I haven't come across with a clear rule that states when to use fortis or lenis sound after a vowel, perhaps CJ has more information on this matter. However, there is a simple rule for the following suffixal consonant, that is , for those 's'-markers such as clouds. Simply put, the rule is...

I have a question about the difference between "s" and "z". Hope you can help me."s" is voiceless and "z" is voiced. However, I find it very difficult to distinguish them when they are at the end. In many cases, even when I play the sound files again and again, I still can't tell the...

Oh, I was forgetting about vowel length... You guys are right. I just didn't think about that because it seems to me that in some cases the distinction is not very noticeable, especially in diphthongs. I can definitely tell the difference between "got" and "god", but I don't think there's such a...

Hi, those two vowels are the same to me. The only difference between "how's" and "house" is the final consonant. I think this is true for both General American and the kind of British English that is usually learned. I don't know if there are people who make a distinction or situations where a...

Anonymous wrote: Hello...can someone plse help me asap, the following are my questions.... 1. Why is the letter ' t ' not doubled in the word benefiting? 2. What rule or feature of English spelling appears in each of the following words? e.g. tape - the silent e makes the previous...

Ann Cook said that the difference between GOD and GOT is just a difference in the way the vowel is pronounced. Longer and on two steps in GOD, shorter and on a single step in GOT. You don't hear the D or the T. However, I found out that's not always true. The extent to which a final consonant is...

Well, you are supposed to write about the *new* trends in Canadian English. Not the history of CE. I think that the Canadian Shift would probably be your best bet--it is a very recent innovation, and thus is one of the few features of CE that could be considered new. It also has many...

Well, I'm learning American English, so I don't really know much about British English. But I guess the difference between /ai/ (bite) and /ae/ (bat) is more or less the same.I circled the areas where I think "General American" vowels are. /ai/ goes from a sound in a certain area to a sound in...