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Happy New Year! This is Wooseob Jeong, assistant professor in the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. I'm also running supervoca.com. Recently, I added "GRE/SAT Lessons with Pronunciation". GRE has about 3000 words, and SAT has about 5000 words....

In article (Email Removed) "Ru Chri" writes: Certainly the letter psi is pronounced /ps/ in both classical and Modern Greek; correctly, the words in English starting with this letter combination ought properly to sound the /p/. I have a vague niggle at the back of my mind that...

I just heard someone say she had written some books on psychology. She pronounced the beginning of the latter word like ( ps- ). In several books on phonetics this way of saying it is not mentioned at all. The word is said to be pronounced ( s- ). I only found one exception to this in : Axel van...

This is what the dictionaries says: what·so·ev·er ( P ) Pronunciation Key (hwts-vr, hwt-, wt-, wt-) pron. Whatever. adj. Whatever: no power whatsoever. Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University I hope it helps you!

Mike Stevens | uk.culture.language.english,alt.usage.english,it.cultura.linguistica. inglese in Someone (FB on it.cultura.linguistica.inglese, an Italian newsgroup about the English language) noticed that the Queen speaks as though she had a face-lift :)) and that to speak as she does "you...

Yes, Woodward. In major part of China, the written Chinese is the same except for some special wordings and slangs. However, as far as spoken Chinese is concerned, it is greatly different, even each separate village has its own pronunciation. In China, it's called "Fang Yan", a special system...

I don't know. M-W has essentially the same thing. Main Entry: chop-chop Pronunciation: "chäp-'chäp, 'chäp-' Function: adverb Etymology: Chinese Pidgin English, reduplication of chop fast Date: 1834 : without delay : QUICKLY I suspect we'd need somebody...

Long, long ago, there was a comic strip named Smilin' Jack, in which there was a cook. I can't remember the fat little Chinese guy's name, but he had a lovely queue, and a horrible temper, running around with a cleaver, sweating and emoting all over the place. That was during WWII. I...

Only amongst people of a certain age. I couldn't imagine a young East Ender saing "orf". Matthew Huntbach

Talking about East Enders: on another thread, there was mention of the Queen's "orf" pronunciation of "off". It seems to me, that although the vowels are not identical, "orf" is alive and well in the East End of London, as is "yer" for "year"...