At the AUE site, there's a page headed "Pronunciation of newsgroup contributors' names". The URL is http://www.alt-usage-english.org/audio gallery/index.html When you ... the pronunciation that's given to the spelling

Restore pertinent discussion about the meaning of "aw": If "the sound of 'aw'" has any useful meaning, it must refer to the pronunciation that's given to the spelling "aw" in dictionaries, which is the

A certain AUE contributor has deluded himself into thinking there's a substantial difference between my vowels in "call" and "Bob" in that remark. In general I agree; I think all of your cot/caught vowels sound like

If I want you to use the vowel of your ... order to accomplish that? What would you suggest I write? Before I made a suggestion, I would want to be persuaded that there was some good reason for you to want me to use a vowel when you don't know

I don't know what song you're referring to; my interest in the thread started with seeing "AH" used to represent a pronunciation. The familiar lyric is "You say tomato, I say tomato", etc. My point is that while it is

This I don't understand. What rule do you have in mind which might, when misapplied, lead to "erster" from "oyster"? You have a dialect where, say, "bird" is (bV"Id) and it starts to get ridiculed

"Ersters" is definitely rhoticized in the Fred and Ginger version. I guess I was too tired to waffle, and I suppose it's possible that the Gershwins really did mean something ... they couldn't spell otherwise, something like

In classical Latin pronunciation as understood today, "C" would be ... if that was a long vowel and the otherwise. I didn't think the Romans did stress. I thought (in poetry at least) it was all to do with long and short vowels -

I imagine the way the Romans said "Boadicea" was very ... fact, very close to "Boudicca" apart from the extra vowel. In classical Latin pronunciation as understood today, "C" would be a K sound, not a G sound as

The only pronunciation I've ever heard for Bodega Bay, California, is "bo DAY ga", though sometimes the first vowel drops out completely. This is also how Paul Simon sings it in "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes", which