With whatever vowel of their dialect they think is best expressed by "AH", of course. Yes, as a communication of pronunciation "AH" is useless. How's that? If I want you to use the vowel of your dialect that you think is

In classical Latin pronunciation as understood today, "C" would be ... if that was a long vowel and the otherwise. I didn't think the Romans did stress. I thought (in poetry at least) it was all to do with long and short vowels -

Not at all (though that may be the use of ... in "cut" in the most conventionally standard varieties of English. Well, I wasn't being entirely serious. But I'm sure I've read something that implied that the 19th century RP

I think (V) - as it's conventionally used, not as ... mean the latter here to correspond to IPA "turned a". Isn't the conventional use of (V) just to describe whatever vowel sound occurs in "cut" in the variety of

o you mean the "father" vowel (usually /A:/ in RP ... admit that I find /Ti:A:tA:/ bizarre (or at least retired-colonel-ish). No, I don't know how to write it, but the a I mean is sort of on the a side of schwa. I think (V) - as

When I try to pronounce (IN), (&N), or {EN), it seems difficult and unnatural. But (A:N) (as in "wrong") and (VN) (as in "hung") are no problem. I find (&N) unnatural to pronounce as well, but no more so than I find

I've always wondered why English dictionaries use IPA instead of the idiosyncratic systems they force their users to decipher tradition, probably. IPA, whatever the variant, makes much more sense, especially to people who have learned other

ObAUE: You're "on to something" or "onto something"? /An t@/, never /Antu/. I don't detect any difference in pronunciation between "onto" and "on to". They both have /@/ before consonants and /u/

There are a few words which tend to have the ... the same) - half, halve, calf, can't, shan't, banana, rather. Also there are still a handful of AmE speakers that follow the southern England approach (mainly in Eastern New England). Yes,

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