It is not the same discussion when it comes to names. The pronunciation of names is decided by the bearers of the names. There is a well-known surname in England written Cholmondeley but pronounced Chumley. Many people with the surname Menzies

^ (= How?) Americans say /ma:m/ (with a relatively long /a:/, since it's stressed and precedes a voiced nasal). "Mum" is marked as non-American, or very hurried. Is this difference in the pronunciation to be expected? For example, if

^ (= How?) Naw, that's how Somerset pronounces it. Americans say /ma:m/ (with a relatively long /a:/, since it's stressed and precedes a ... Nothing in Nature so irksome as general Discourses, especially when they turn chiefly upon

^ (= How?) Naw, that's how Somerset pronounces it. Americans say /ma:m/ (with a relatively long /a:/, since it's stressed and precedes a voiced nasal). For those with the "cot"/"caught" merger, the

How many Americans are aware that the "long 'o'"of Received Pronunciation is different from the American "long 'o'"? Some American accents have a "long 'o'" that is similar to the "long

I stopped reading Katherine Kerr when the same mistake was perpetuated in her 3rd or 4th book: she gave 'thin' ... of an o - I like to call it a smiley - so %u means a smiley over the u. That diacritic is called a "breve" in

I wonder if there are any speakers of a variety ... the "Ef" pronunciation. Is he from Scotland or somewhere nearthere? I don't know, but I still want to know what that ferocious-sounding interjection is that all the MPs utter

I wonder if there are any speakers of a variety of BrE who has created an initialism for the phenom ... in London). It was the Speaker who consistently used the "Ef" pronunciation. Is he from Scotland or somewhere near there? I don't

I wonder whether he's a BrE, say, who is hearing some particular American accent's /E/ realization as an /i/. PIPs, for example, will say "semi" in a way that might sound like "simmy" or "simm-eye" to PINPs. I

I would also use the same vowel in Juan and ... would train my colleagues by failing to respond to "one". I think the usual pronunciation of 'Juan' in AmE is h-less, because the name has become so naturalized. Or, rather, ... AmE