No, sorry. Will La Salle do? This is a common toponymical element in the Chicago area. Probably some French explorer/fur trader or such. The proper AmE pronunciation is /l@'s&l/ ("la Sal") (as in Didn't need no welfare state

Larry G infrared: I was watching "the Croc Hunter" the other day and ... care to tackle an IPA, or other, representationof that one? I see you're not getting any responses from Australians in this thread. The problem is that our own

representation learnt though guide I your Note to Janet: I'm not American - I'm from northern England (Sheffield). Dear Jonathan, Sorry about that. I suppose it's a mistake to suppose that everyone's American. Janet Australia,

"Have" has the lax vowel of "can" (be able), while "halve" has the tense vowel of "can" (= BrE tin). Sorry, Richard, I just don't get it. Not always the teacher's fault. Color to a blind man, or some

I'm pretty sure that in the U.S. and southern England ... accept that my CIC intuitions about this may be wrong. I think they are, for southern England; can't speak for the US. "laurel" for me rhymes with "sorrel" which

MC'S LAW: "Post a question in aue and sooner or ... inference that was never implied, or all of the above." Not angry. But the premise of the question was an error. QED! You have assumed that "everyone" is keyed into

example of Whoa. "Was" is pronounced by me and presumably by you ... happens to be a sort of phonemic respelling of "was"). Well, this brings us back to what I was saying about phonetic spelling sometimes being mistaken for eye