Thanks for having a go, Mr M. Well, I'm afraid I have no idea how well you did I'm not surprised about 'lei' in 3 (I see a parallel with 'Venezuela'), but as for 5, I expected 'ge:'. In 4, why 'g' rather than sound heard in 'gem'? Any

Yes, as I said above, this is to be expected where the vowel is followed by a fortis ("unvoiced") consonant ... to have (o), but it's the only word I can think of containing /@US/, unless we want to count "oshit!" For me

The local pronunciation of Newcastle (upon Tyne) is, I believe, /nju'kas@l/, with second syllable stress and a "cat" vowel in the second syllable. In the rest of the country people tend to say /'njukas@l/ (north) or

Didn't someone in a.u.e and sci.lang propose this phonemic constrast ... as /t/ in one word and /d/ in the other). Can you identify your two nuclei with those two nuclei? Phonetically, definitely. Phonemically - I guess so. My phonemic

I would also use the same vowel in Juan and father. I would also expect a detectable H, if ... "one" pronunciation but regard it as ignorant and lazy. I would train my colleagues by failing to respond to "one". I think the

Since 'Juan' is often pronounced as 'one', this is getting confusing. The standard AmE Anglicized pronunciation of "Juan" has the 'father' vowel (rhyming with "John" in most AmE dialects); the standard

I'm fighting a losing battle with my six-year old son ... colloquialism that migrated to written English, rather than vice versa. The weak pronunciation of "have" and the weak pronunciation of "of" are basically the same,

Jones: Hmmm...maybe you people aren't dumb. Maybe you just never ... that each English vowel has, in general, two different sounds. You might notice that he's posting from the UK. Evidently the notion of "long" and

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The pronunciation of "r" is very difficult for some asians, especially r in the middle of a word such as " murder". In Standard British English the "r" at the end of a syllable isn't pronounced. This type of