That what I call a "British accent that doesn't sound awful, affected, formal", so an accent that I like. Good choice! The good thing I noticed right away was his glottal stops instead of T's. And T's are not pronounced at

Do you know which accent is chosen by MW as the reference in the pronunciation keys. Is it General American? No idea. The audio files comes from several different speakers, but I think I've always heard "accentless" pronunciations

Listen for a glottal stop at the end of "can't". It'll basically sound like the <n> got cut off, rather than completed as a sound. In most American dialects, "can't" is pronounced with the stop when in it's followed by more information:

Hi, Gimson writes that the glottal plosive is to be kept separate from any glottalisation or lanryngelisation involving creaky voicing or the vibration of the false vocal folds just above the vocal folds in the vocal tract. He goes on to

Anonymous wrote: It really bugs me the way Americans say a 'British' accent because more than one country makes up Britain, there is England, Scotland, and Wales, all of which have very different accents. Then of course all three countries have

Hi, here's how I call that: Abolfazl Moradpoor wrote: 1 - I'm not good at filing and typing 2 - I don’t like doing sales work 3 - I can't stand working from nine to five #1 - Unreleased T, or stopped T, or glottal stop. - You

1. Flapping When you pronouncing "it was" in casual, connected speech, could it be sounded like "idwas" or "irwas"? No. Like "water" as "warer", or "fatty" as "fady". 2. Glottalization In the same situation, can glottalization

(What you call a glottal stop I call an unreleased T.) I feel I would only use a glottal stop if the word starting with Y is actually stressed in the sentence. You got it! Trust your instincts on this one. CJ

Hi again Jim, I was thinking about.. feature #3 again. I wonder if T + Y is CH when the word starting with Y is stressed. Here's an example, consider the stress on "him" and "you": I'm not talking about him , I'm talking about you ... Can that

Hi, "writer" doesn't sound like "wider", it sounds like "rider". Anyway, T's are sometimes tapped. It usually happens when T's are between two vowels and the following vowel is not stressed at all (not even a secondary stress on it). Example: Be