( . . . ) How would Bob have reacted if I'd proposed using Chambers' system? Boo! The Chambers Dictionary (1993 edition) has a pronunciation symbol that they say corresponds to the vowels in "lean, keel, dene, chief, seize, gear,

"Frances Kemmish" kija kitbet So what informal notation do you propose that can be ... you, Im genuinely curiosu toknow if such a beast exists. Perhaps one could use the example words in the table here:

People who use terms like "CINC", "cot/father vowel", "ah pronunciation" ... a place where the terms are thoroughly defined and explained. Wasn't there some reference to something like that? Of course it would be

Has this changed over my lifetime? Id est, have dic'ers merely thrown in the towel, recognizing the frustrating tendency of the masses to "reek" all over the place? Or has it always been this way? It has 'always' been /ri:k/,

el3.net... If I were going to use the word "Bolivarian," I'd ... would make an accent on the first "i" seem strange. The common American pronunciation of Bolivar is with stress on the first and last syllables. The correct

Whenever I've asked a Dutch person to pronounce Gogh it ... answer... in fact I would be surprised if there isn't. Here we are: http://www.nga.gov/education/vgt pronun.htm Not only does the Dutch pronunciation sound completely different

Among BrE speakers I have noticed that some used a voiced sibilant ("z" sound) in words where I believe the more common pronunciation is unvoiced (the pronoun "us" for example). Can this tendency be identified with a particular

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

As long as the speech of the speaker in question ... "wuz" and "lissen," we're talking about anotherexample of phonetic spelling. Whoa. "Was" is pronounced by me and presumably by you like "wuz", but

As long as the speech of the speaker in question is not represented with such spellings as "wuz" and "lissen," we're talking about another example of phonetic spelling. Whoa. "Was" is pronounced by me and