C and g. What is the special thing about these letters? I mean, why do they have "hard" and "soft" sounds? How did c come to be pronounced as s before e and i? G is the same but with a j sound. Sound changes in Latin. In

Glad you didn't called a romance dialect!

(Email Removed) (Celery) burbled Hi All, I find the term "as opposed to" in the Merriam Webster Dictionary at www.m-w.com. It is defined as ... more on the British usage. What is the meaning of "as opposed to"? Can both of

the following for the pronunciations (ASCII IPA used to represent IPA): /'bA.lI,vA:/, Spanish : /bo'li(beta)ar/ That's /bo'liBar/ in ASCII IPA. (And it shouldn't be. No phonemic transcription of Spanish should have both /b/ and

Okay, so this one time? In band camp? Raymond S. Wise was all, like: "Between you and I" is grammatical in the dialect of those people who use it(1). Such people do not use "I" or "he" as the objects of a preposition.

Jim and I both went to our teacher's home yesterday. Our teacher invited Jim and me to her home yesterday. Yes, you've got it. In Australia the proscription against saying or writing "Our teacher invited Jim and I" is not ...

It's not the custom, I know, of this group to publish book reviews. My excuse is that this isn't really a review of one specific book. It is, rather, a gripe about some disturbing trends in the publishing industry. As a result, there

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It depends how 'well spoken' you are. There are so many different dialects that it would be impossible to get a figure for that.

Whenever I've asked a Dutch person to pronounce Gogh it ... answer... in fact I would be surprised if there isn't. Here we are: http://www.nga.gov/education/vgt pronun.htm Not only does the Dutch pronunciation sound completely different