You are witnessing what linguists refer to as 'assimilation', when the pronunciation of a letter is affected by something surrounding it. In this case, /k/ (unvoiced) is the pronunciation we start with, but because the vowel following it

I guess they speak the Scouse dialect. I just looked up some stuff, and I found this, which seems to be very interesting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scouse I also found an awesome video, but I can't post it here, I'm afraid. It's a

It depends what you mean by long and short vowels. I only know the definition based on the real length, and in that case "bang" would have a long vowel because the vowel is followed by a voiced consonant. But the distinction between long

Hi, I have never seen any reduced forms in written English, and your examples "look" odd to me: Am Jack, from the US I don't think that's possible even in informal English on the internet, but I'm not sure (you never know

TinyPixie, you are absolutely correct about the use of these prepositions, but there exists one nuance that you should take into consideration. Thus, on is used for giving phone numbers in British English, eg : Call us on 0800 0900017 , while at

We just had a thread about Cockney rhyming slang now this article about ATMs using it. "They're" watching us. "LONDON (AP — You'd better get ready to use your loaf if you want to get your hands on some bread. Over the next

(bad US spelling and ruined punctuation rules) So it seems you are using flattery as your technique for asking people to help you? Interesting. Look up mothers-in-law versus mother-in-laws. Apply the same rule uncles. And speaking of ruined

American-English was British-English, except that it was altered significantly by all of the various influences (immigrants/languages from other countries) that learned to speak it in America. Everyone in the UK knows how to communicate in English

According to both the Cambridge Dictionary and the Oxford Dictionary, "bag'gel" is not the British pronunciation of the word "bagel". If those two dictionaries are any indication, the British pronunciation is basically

To Martin: In my ESL class, people have difficulties with all sorts of things. "F" becomes "p", "i" becomes "a", etc. "Not" may easily become "nat" for people, especially if they