"the break even point analysis is all right if you have a one product business"?. Just pay extra attention to this point a + singular noun beginning with a consonant: a car, a stare, a dog, a cat ... an + singular noun

"the break even point analysis is all right if you have a one product business"?. Just pay extra attention to this point  a  + singular noun beginning with a consonant:  a  car, a stare, a dog, a cat ... an  + singular noun beginning

What's your point? I made an implicit point: it is not cognitively productive to remember pronounciation for every word. What learners should be taught: a set of heuristics to find possible pronunciations for a word. Mastery of phonetics (or

I don't recommend that site for any one. It is full of crap when it comes to AmE. Use either M-W and reference.com dude in AmE = 'dud Notice the yod-dropping, that is, no /j/ (in IPA) after alveolar consonants. What do you mean? I

Rule "an" is used before words beginning with a vowel "sound" since "hour" is pronounced with a silent h => its pronunciation is beginning with a vowel just like in "our" Therefore, an hour is

I don't recommend that site for any one. It is full of crap when it comes to AmE. Use either M-W and reference.com dude in AmE = 'dud Notice the yod-dropping, that is, no /j/ (in IPA) after alveolar consonants.

The consonant cluster kj is not permitted in english. Since it is not in the middle of a word, k becomes silent. ˈdʒɑs is how you pronounce it.

all final stops in AmE are unreleased? To varying degrees, yes. t most of all is unreleased when utterance final. Then p , k , d , b , and g in approximately that order. The nasals are not stops, so don't worry about those. You can pronounce

So, I'm I to understand that all final stops in AmE are unreleased? /p/, /t/, /k/, as in nap, hat, hack? and their voiced counterparts /b/, /d/, /g/, as in nab, had, hag? And let's not forget the nasals, /n/, /m/, /ng/, pen, gem, king?

Maybe the muscles in our lips, tongues, and throats get so used to certain patterns of motion that we just can't break the speech habits that we developed at an early age. Yes, but if someone practices hard enough, and they are also a bit