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Hi David, here you can find some stuff about American English. Vowels, consonants, lots of stuff... http://evaeaston.com/pr/home.html On that website there's also a link to this page, where the states are pronounced. http://evaeaston.com/pr/states.html If you need to know how to pronounce a...

That's right, because of elision (the /d/ in and is not pronounced because it is surrounded by other consonants) and weak forms ( and and in are both structure words and therefore not stressed. Their vowel sounds are reduced to /ə/) The end result: /fɔ:kənnaɪf/ (I'm not sure if that second /n/...

I can't imagine how you can drop a vowel, to be honest - do you have any examples. Some working class accents drop some consonants.

Dear forum-ers, I was born in the UK and acquired the english language as a joint first language with arabic. My family moved back to our country when I was still a child, and although I always maintained a very high standard of spoken, and written english I unfortunately lost my accent. I...

did you listen to the audio clip? Yes. Just now. (But not before my earlier response.) Texas still does not seem that far off. Nevertheless, IMHO, it's a horrible accent, and it may as well be from outer space as from Texas, i.e., it could well be from anywhere. /æ/ is...

CalifJim wrote: Rhyming friend to stand sounds peculiar to me, and somewhat Texan, perhaps. It's definitely not standard. Thanks. Well, I'm not an expert on accents... but did you listen to the audio clip? Would you say pronouncing "again" that way sounds southern? I think I've...

Thanks, anon. Without your post, I would have missed this thread. Goodman wrote: Hi CJ, What an impressive thread you have posted. You have slowly made me a fan of yours. Yep! CalifJim wrote: In any case, the struggle for the learner is always making the conversion from 'computing'...

Yeah Anita, now I've seen where it is! Thx CalifJim wrote: -- What's a bigamist? -- A lot of fog. Hahahaaa Bot / Bop Bod / Bob The unvoiced consonants have the effect of clipping the vowel sound before the mouth forms the final consonant; the voiced consonants allow voicing to...

If you say Bob as Bo-buh , bod as bo-duh , bop as bo-puh , and bot as bo-tuh , you will be doing a stereotypical Italian accent. Oh, yes! You got it! -- What's a bigamist? -- A lot of fog. there's not much difference between: Bot / Bop Bod / Bob It's very difficult to...

Hi, I read Nona's new post earlier, but... where is it now? I can't see it anymore. It was a post with a link to a website where you could listen to IPA sounds (for British English). Well, I heard a lot of words pronounced with a clear consonant sound at the end. I thought of posting this: What...