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1. Why don't you believe us? Nothing was said about n being an exception in British English, so it's not an exception! 2. You have the Internet at your disposal. It is replete with information. Type diphthong in a search engine and you'll get lots of answers. Here is one. CB

Thanks a lot CB & CJ .. So, it's a matter of stress .. ! But !! 1) - What about ( happen / open ) in the British English !!? Can the last consonant be doubled !? 2) - What is a diphthong ? Thanks again

See Post:104845 for the rules. Do not treat final w or y as a consonant when applying these rules. And x is never doubled. CJ

The consonant is doubled if there is a short vowel between consonants in a stressed syllable: forge tt ing, swi mm ing If the syllable is not stressed, doubling doesn't occur: targe t ing No doubling occurs if the vowel is pronounced as a diphthong: growing In British English -...

Opens - Z rides - Z believes - Z goes - Z All Z sounds, because they all end with a voiced consonant, and "goes" ends with a vowel sound.

In the '60s we used a grammar booked called Hooked on Phonics . However, some of the other students did check it out for themselves... I know because their parents eventually mentioned their research to me. Too bad many educators feel the need to dumb things down. Remember- to almost every...

I think you're right on, Kooyeen. And thanks for the reply. I am a stickler in my pronunciation classes that students learn to say the -s (and -ed) endings correctly. Even though I do this, I know that native English speaking Americans rarely say that voiced endings as perfectly voiced, yet...

Hi again, well, I don't know, but I heard (and I realized it must be so) that even if the z-sound is devoiced, the vowel length remains the same, as if the following sound was voiced, and was still a z-sound. By vowel length I mean the difference between: God = Stressed syllable ending with...

CB's explanation is 100% right on. It is a linguistic question dealing with phonology. By the way, the same principle is in play with the plural noun ending 's/es': 's' after a non-voiced consonant (lamps, desks); 'z' after a voiced consonant or a vowel (dogs,...

Kooyeen, Thanks for the welcome! This seems to be an interesting place. I'm interested to hear about the preceding vowel length, if you're inclined to elaborate. I agree that the devoiced z is not exactly like an s sound , but I can't quite figure out why. So maybe it's in the...