According to John Wells at University College London: "I do not understand the proposed distinction between Mainstream RP and Contemporary RP (unless the writer thinks, wrongly, that ‘contemporary’ means ‘young’)." You can read more of what

Just some additional comments. CalifJim wrote: First of all, I didn't think it was awful. (I mostly listened, not watching.) The following are some observations. It think that depends on your taste. For some people it's awful; for others

Here are my comments. The parentheses indicate that something is not part of General American-like dialects or RP, but is found in certain regional dialects.. CA R ------ American R's are always pronounced, British R's are not. In General American

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

I have mentioned this before on this website, but I hope it will help you. I am poet who has made available freely about 240 of my own poems on the internet, but I have also added my clear English voice to each poem to help both overseas students

Hwat for what is the original pronunciation and was the only form used in Middle English. In Modern English, many dialects lost the wine-whine distinction, and began pronouncing words spelled "wh" as simply "w", rather thn "hw". The original,

Thank you very much for your replies. But I noticed some strange things: CalifJim wrote: I don't make any change in the OO sound in you, you've, or you'd . Really? I thought "you" was not usually "yoo" (oo like in "too"). I also recently opened

Now on to the Texan that moved to Chicago. Like I said, Texas is a big state, with a huge accent continuum. The Westernern most part of Texas has a Western or Western-transitional accent, and thus sounds pretty well identical to a New Mexican

Nope, a complete vowel merger means that you can neither produce nor perceive a difference between two or more vowels in a certain environment or all environments. In my dialect, the vowels and are merged in all environments so I cannot produce

The other thing that I was saying was that before /r\/, there is no contrast between tense and lax vowels in most definitions of General American and approximate accents. OK. But what I was saying was that what applies for /r\/ applies