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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, conservative form is still around, and is considered...

I don't think there is a hard and fast rule here. However: If you have a two syllable word that ends with an 'a', it's typical that the vowel in the first is short. Like 'dada', 'feta', etc. This is not a rule so much as a pattern that should be observed. Following it, the 'da' in 'data'...

and an ignorant American would look at British and pronounce practise (Br. spelling) like practize.. Highly unlikely. Americans on the other hand, have been butchering it for centuries and should not be consulted when learning this language. It is, after all, English and not American. Rubbish....

Francesca wrote: I saw someone using 'loling' as the act of laughing out loud (= lol) Hi Francesca Let's bid the word welcome to the English language. However, since there is only one vowel (o) between two consonants (l and l) in a stressed syllable, it should be spelled lo ll ing . (Cf. ge tt...

Xam0 wrote: There is definately an upstate NY accent. The vowels in the middle of some words are either changed or pronounced as dipthongs. Ill put the normal spelling of some words followed by the upstate NY pronunciation.. and then the north jersey pronunciation (where im from) which is fairly...

It seems to me that you are wrestling with the "Second-Letter Rule", which says that a single vowel letter (i.e., not combined with another vowel letter in a digraph) is pronounced tense if the second letter after it is another vowel letter, lax otherwise. ( lady, caddie, hope, hop, hoping,...

I want to explain to my students the reasons behind the difference in pronouncing 'write' and 'written' is that 'written' has double Ts. How can I tell them about this? Whether it's written with 2 t's or 3 t's or no t's has absolutely nothing to do with why it's pronounced like that. And to...

foreign languages to comunicate we are able to communicate in English if we know 1000 words

This is really badly off topic but I couldn't resist the temptation to comment on your correct observation. I understand very well that native speakers of English mispronounce foreign words because foreign languages are not studied much in English-speaking countries. Well, can you really blame...

I also pronounce "young" and "love" with the same vowel. The reason that "love" has an "o" in Modern and Middle English is because: "The pronunciation of written o in son, love, come, etc. is due to Norman spelling conventions prohibiting writing of u before v, m, n due to the graphical...