In British English^x, Vowels^x

Anonymous wrote: The American pronunciation of “o” in your next example wouldn’t be found in any regional accent of British English that I can call to mind immediately, though there is considerable variation in the pronunciation of this sound – for example, in Scotland, Liverpool and the West...

It’s rather hard to work out quite what you are looking for here. Some of these features – as Marvin A was pointing out – are not specifically American English pronunciation, but the allophonic variation that occurs in connected speech. That is, the pronunciation of some sounds is influenced...

Hi Diego, the vowels in "cup" and "cat" are very different in American English. But I see you are interested in the British pronunciation, and, well, in that case I can't tell the exact difference too Those two vowels are different, but not very much in my opinion, since I wouldn't be able to...

I’m a native British speaker. I would tend to transcribe the same vowel in ‘train’ and ‘danger’ – !

Here's how I'd say the first sentence if I put on a British accent:I must go to see my brother's new house. represents. Same for "crop".

Hmm. Ok. Well, here's how I say it:but you should probably wait for a British English speaker to respond, because I might have made some mistakes, because I can't speak Queen's English. The parts that I'm unsure of are: which vowel would be used in "danger"; how the linking r behaves in...

To tell you the truth, I've never heard any foreigner (unless they learned English when they were very young, or had lived in an English speaking country for at least a decade, and had extensive, and personalized accent coaching) ever be able to pull off either an American or British accent....

Englishuser wrote:Hi, Jaguar. In British English it is Jag-u-ar but I believe that in American English it is Jagwar Don't forget that there is a /j/-sound in there! /Jagwar/ is the most commonly heard pronunciation in the US, although the 'British' one is also used by some GAE speakers. A GAE...

Good! I'm glad it helped. You know, if you get one of those electronic dictionaries, I'm pretty sure you can write a program to extract all the words with the characteristics I described. At least that's what I've heard. I haven't tried it myself. As for pronunciation, there are a few...

Englishuser wrote:When I was talking about 'clipped vowels' I meant that vowels are pronounced in a staccato fashion. Some British English speakers use a glottal stop instead of intervocalic "t", so "better" is pronounced . Is that what you mean?