The maximum onsets principle isn't universally accepted. See http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/syllabif.htm which ... /n/ goes in the third syllable because of stress.) Jonathan Who is Wells? Professor of phonetics at University College

I've been sitting here trying to work out my pronunciation, ... saying "high for nation". Not the same thing at all. Jumping in at midstream and mid-arguments: As one who typesets many languages and thus has to hyphenate words, I

I have been worrying overnight whether I am a construct ... genuine independent person. This will help me sleep at night. Professor John Lawler, of the University of Michigan's Linguistics Department, posts from that university at Ann Arbor,

Lars Eighner typed thus: I must have missed the previous hashing. I accept that there is no relationship between Hero and Gyro. However, I ... rotating spit got its name later than the US "Hero"? Or that the food was introduced later?

No, sorry. Will La Salle do? This is a common toponymical element in the Chicago area. Probably some French explorer/fur trader or such. The proper AmE pronunciation is /l@'s&l/ ("la Sal") (as in Didn't need no welfare state

"Peter T. Daniels" (Email Removed) schrieb im Newsbeitrag Mmm, OK, I come from an ELT rather than an ... having been using it all evening, what does 'marked' mean? It comes from early structuralism (Jakobson, Prague School, and

Anachronism, pronunciationwise. For obvious reasons, I've never heard an ancient Roman speaking Latin. Ican only imagine how the Latin should sound, i.e. ... sounds different from French - Latin, or American-Latin, or Russian-Latin. The same

I think it might be an idea to have something on the website about "short" and "long" vowels, because there does seem to be some confusion about this. Long and short vowels (in the layman's sense of "long" and

the of helps, This is true, but it complicates matters. For example (here I'm using ASCII IPA to represent IPA), the Collins dictionaries, Cambridge dictionaries, and the OED all use (@U) to represent the British (Received Pronunciation)

Just lately I have heard several people, including sports commentators on radio, using the term 'furtherest' when they obviously mean ... 'furtherest'. The superlative of far is always given as 'furthest'. Has anyone else