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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...

Goodman wrote: Well, Diamond; remember the vowels: A,E,I,O,and U? Any word beginning with a vowel needs to takes an “an”, not an “a”. i.e. “an apple”, an “orange” but a “mango”. Likewise, it’s “an important…”, not “a importance”. This is aside from the correct usage with articles. I agree.

Well, Diamond; remember the vowels: A,E,I,O,and U? Any word beginning with a vowel needs to takes an “an”, not an “a”. i.e. “an apple”, an “orange” but a “mango”. Likewise, it’s “an important…”, not “a importance”. This is aside from the correct usage with articles.

Nope, a complete vowel merger means that you can neither produce nor perceive a difference between two or more vowels in a certain environment or all environments. In my dialect, the vowels vowels, so that I could transcribe them in IPA. I still have a great deal of trouble distinguishing...

General Canadian English is extremely similar to General American English. However, there are a number of differences between the two dialects. Firstly, GCE (General Canadian English) exhibits a linguistic phenomenon called Canadian Raising. Basically, the diphthong “ai”--as in "by" or "lie"--is...

What I meant by there's no contrast is that there are no minimal pairs (in General American). Tense and lax vowels never contrast: /Er\/ and /er\/ both mean "air". In fact, I can't even *hear* the difference between /Er\/ and /er\/ at all. They sound exactly the same, in the same way that...

You can do just an unreleased T or an unreleased T with a glottal stop. I don't have the statistics, but it seems to me that just the glottal stop is less common. I don't know what you mean by held. You use that word a lot. Do you mean "held back", like unreleased? I hear more of a...

In"cat" the sound is something between "a" (like in "cup") and "e" (like in "bet"). Try to sustain vowel "a" (like in "cup") and then shift it to "e" (like in "bet"). The sound in the middle is the one you should hear in "cat", its quite long vowel (opposite to "a" in "cup").

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...

According to a book on American English pronunciation ('Lesson 12: Central and Back Vowels', page 136. I don't know the name of the book, though), /a/ is the vowel of father, box or calm. However, almost every dictionary out there establishes a difference between /a:/ and /o/, which would be the...