Kooyeen wrote: Hi, what's the difference in pronunciation between "writing" and "riding"? I once heard that some people distinguish them by the first vowel. Who distinguish them and how? Who doesn't? Thanks Their pronunciations are same for

Lesson 1: Basic Pronunciation The following will make you sound Southern to non-Southerners: Pin pen merger: Pronounce "pin" and "pen" both as pin . Any /E/ followed by an /n/ should be sounded as /In/ No yod dropping: therefore " No

Hi, what's the difference in pronunciation between "writing" and "riding"? I once heard that some people distinguish them by the first vowel. Who distinguish them and how? Who doesn't? Thanks

Xam0 wrote: There is definately an upstate NY accent. The vowels in the middle of some words are either changed or pronounced as dipthongs. Ill put the normal spelling of some words followed by the upstate NY pronunciation.. and then the north

W is considered a vowel only because of words like "hollow" and "follow" and "mellow". In the soda, Mello Yello, they don't put the w's, why? because you don't need them to make the "O" sound. It's not "hollowuh", and people who drink the soda

And similarly, we would write "an" for expressions like "sending out an SOS", where 's' is a consonant, but the pronunciation 'ess' starts with a vowel sound.

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It seems to me that you are wrestling with the "Second-Letter Rule", which says that a single vowel letter (i.e., not combined with another vowel letter in a digraph) is pronounced tense if the second letter after it is another vowel letter,

I want to explain to my students the reasons behind the difference in pronouncing 'write' and 'written' is that 'written' has double Ts. How can I tell them about this? Whether it's written with 2 t's or 3 t's or no t's has absolutely nothing to

Hi there, I am a non-native English teacher. I want to explain to my students the reasons behind the difference in pronouncing 'write' and 'written' is that 'written' has double Ts. How can I tell them about this? Second question: I want to