Can somebody tell me the correct pronunciation of "Los Angeles" ... short a is the correct one. (or are both used?) Short a is correct, and the final e is usually short as in "less" in Californian English. But the OP should

He already said that the current version supports mid-western=20 American (presumably Caught=3DCot), but that you can edit the=20 pronunciation table on which it is based. This, of course, would be=20 a major undertaking - particularly if you

Which do you think is better to learn? The one that doesn't require Flash. Other than that, it's up to you. There is no rigid number for the vowels in American English or any other dialect of any language. It all depends on where you draw

Hi friends, In this link: http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/about.html you will see there are 15 vowels in American English. In this link: http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/IPA/SSAE.html you will see there are 12 vowels in Standard American

I quite understand why rhotic people would find the usual ... in the language where the combination "uh" represents this sound? It makes sense in an odd sort of way. The attempt is to represent /V/, which is probably the accented ...

I quite understand why rhotic people would find the usual ... in the language where the combination "uh" represents this sound? Good point, "uh" doesn't really appear in traditional English words, does it? Searching on in

Not for AmE CINCs they don't. "Soft" is in the boss class. Short O. This cryptic response is just too terse. Are you denying that what Areff says is true? Or are you merely saying that for you both words have the same sound (and that

The only transcription I've seen here of the "correct" American ... English. How do Americans generally pronounce British names containing /A./? Probably with the closest phoneme we have. But there are several. I don't think we

It seems just a bit stranger in the case of ... on "David Packard of Hewlett-Packard", how did they do it? The only transcription I've seen here of the "correct" American pronunciation of "Packard" contains a

I can half understand why we don't say Paree, but why shouldn't English speaking people be able to sort out ... ard' instead of 'Mare lind' (Ok, I can't do Fontanian symbols) and the 'normal' pronunciation of the