Dipsik, Check M-W, Jones and Wells dictionaries, see whether 'seg' in segment does have a reduced vowel. I am not a fan of rule; however, I would like to look for an explanation that accounts many disparate pronunciation phenemona.

What is the vowel sound preceding the final /z/ in words ending in es? Is it /ɪ/, as in the word 'is', or is it /i/, as in the word 'ease'? As in the word "is". Beach, Beaches = Beach is Case, Cases = Case is But when

"the break even point analysis is all right if you have a one product business"?. Just pay extra attention to this point a + singular noun beginning with a consonant: a car, a stare, a dog, a cat ... an + singular noun

What's your point? I made an implicit point: it is not cognitively productive to remember pronounciation for every word. What learners should be taught: a set of heuristics to find possible pronunciations for a word. Mastery of phonetics (or

Rule "an" is used before words beginning with a vowel "sound" since "hour" is pronounced with a silent h => its pronunciation is beginning with a vowel just like in "our" Therefore, an hour is

It is a three syllable word, and there is a vowel cluster. Therefore, the middle syllable get unstressed. The vowel cluster -eu- is not an english one; anglicizing it leads to /u/, cf. deuce, Neuce, etc 'bɛt əl ˌdʒus, /t/ is a tapped t

Is there a difference in the pronunciation of General American 'back' and RP 'back'? For example as in: I came back Wednesday. The reason for asking is because my pronouncing dictionary gives the /æ/ intermediate vowel for both

According to WIKIANSWERS , it is: Any word with a final W, such as cow or few or tomorrow , uses the w as a vowel. I have never heard that "Cow" is vowel. The words which contain the pronunciation of vowel can be counted as

Using “a” and “an” Before Words Raphael asks: When should I use “a” and when should I use “an” before the different words? For example, should I say “a hour” or “an hour?” I stumble over this everytime and dont’t know if I’m getting it right, as

Hi Infinik If, as Ray has said, there are places/companies that actually pronounce "LED" the same way they pronounce the past form of "lead" (i.e. as "led"), then I would expect them to also say "a LED". I