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I think the difference is in the stress of the vowel. See my previous post.

Hi Anonimous, I'm afraid I don't agree with you. As I said before I'm not a native English speaker but I've always been taught that B IR D is pronounced with a long vowel sound, the same sound you pronounce in nurse, girl, etc. If you look it up in a dictionary the phonetic transcription is: b 3: d

It may be a characteristic of a particular group of people, or it may be an idiosyncracy of individual speakers. Other than the fact that "w" quite often influences the sounds of vowels (especially "a" and "o") which may follow it, there is no explanation from any phonetic principles I know...

Have to disagree with the vowel sound you use in B IR D is a long vowel. The long vowel "i" sound is the "i"sound in "find," "mine," "grind," "like," "tribe." The difference between the ir and er is, indeed, the accent. Probably has roots to British pronunciation (e.g., Director = British...

Well, I'm not a native speaker of English but as far as I know the vowel sound you use in B IR D is a long vowel the same as in g ir l, n ur se, w or ld, w or k, ch ur ch, b ur n ... While the other is the same you have for example in teach er , a noth er ... It's not a long vowel and it only...

I'm only getting question marks for those symbols, but if you are referring to the R-colored vowel sounds in "bird" and "winner", the difference should be explained by a speaker of British English, where there is a difference. As an American, I can only tell you that these vowels are the...

Hi A word with 7 consonants and 1 vowel is STRENGTH. DUBS The 5 letter word that keeps it's pronunciation with 3 letters removed is EMPTY remove EPY to give MT. lol

To hiperaktif, Re: "First learn" and " firstly, learn" . Examples: a) First learn how to pronounce the alphabets individually and then learn how to pronounce them together with a vowel. b) To learn pronunciation you'll have to follow these steps. Firstly, learn to pronounce the...

I am a native speaker and teach pronunciation. I think /ir/ is a STRESSED vowel with an /r/ sound and /er/ is an UNSTRESSED vowel or schwa with an /r/ sound. Stressed vowels are generally longer and stronger than the unstressed schwa. Because the schwa is not a stressed vowel, the sound very...

Hi everyone, There is a useful site introduced in the pinned post that demonstrates how to pronounce English sounds. All you have to do is to click on Launch English Library on the right side of the page (here is the link again: http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/about.html ). The...