I have come to the sudden realization that I don't pronounce all"-ire" words alike. Some have (ajr), with the same ... in the(ajr) class are "learned words" in one way or another for me, but "wire"isn't and I

(wrt "um") 'erm' Not the same sound at all for me: it's "perm" without the p. I even say both (although 'um' is more likely). Weird. It depends so much on how one learned one's accent. My mother's

When people write to me addressing me as "Graham", I usually reply with "who?" That might work for the spoken name, too. Have you tried that on US speakers that call you "Gram"? Or is that pronunciation only used when

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I think (V) - as it's conventionally used, not as ... mean the latter here to correspond to IPA "turned a". Isn't the conventional use of (V) just to describe whatever vowel sound occurs in "cut" in the variety of

rewboss infrared: In American English there are fairly significant differences among different accents in how /&/ and /E/ are pronounced. And for many foreign students (Germans certainly) the difference is infinitesimal. In a long-ago thread

As a native Spanish speaker I have a hard time to distinguish the difference between the vowels in * cut * cot * caught Are there any clues on how should I shape my mouth/lips/tongue/vocal chords/whatever to pronounce these vowels correctly? Hola

As a native Spanish speaker I have a hard time to distinguish thedifference between the vowels in * cut * cot * caught Are there any clues on how should I shape my mouth/lips/tongue/vocal chords/whatever to pronounce these vowelscorrectly? Even

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

If you think about the meanings of "allophone" and "phoneme," you'll realize this is an impossible request. What "others"? Hmm, sorry if my request was unclear. By "others," I meant what are the possible