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/ɛ/ and /e/ (or /eI/ or other variations depending on dialect and position), generally contrast. Bet /bɛt/ and bait /bet/ are distinguished. However, before certain consonants such as /r\/, the distinction between tense and lax vowels is neutralized. Therefore any tense or lax vowel before...

>> PLAY - I always say /plei/, but here you can hear /plɛi/ > BEAR - I always say /ber/, but here you can hear /bɛr/ << According to Wikipedia, before /r\/, in American English " however--but that affects all my /E/'s.

Kooyeen, there is something that you should know. While it is true that North American English has tense-lax neutralization before /r\/, thus , so why did you decided to switch to #3 instead of #3? Btw, since you do have a Western accent, and many Westerners have the CVS, and those that don't...

Kooyeen wrote:My personal choices are (my style):just - always with past simple (I just saw it)yet - always with perfect tenses. (I haven't seen it yet)already - with both perfect tenses and past simple. (I've already seen it - I already checked it)ever and never - practically always with...

When a native speaker of American English says to me on the phone, " I was calling to see how you're doing..." Is he/she using the the tense correctly?

Well, i know in American English we usually discard the present perfect tense.So,is it right to use "I never saw her before" to convey the same meaning of "I've never seen her before" , if for example,we are in the US?

Hi MagdaI'd say both your sentences are correct. There is a tendency in American English to use the past tense with always and never, but the perfect tense is of course also right. (I do realize that in your example the past perfect is used.)Examples:I always wanted to see him in person. / I have...

CalifJim wrote:A newspaper might announce this as: Professor Johnson has (recently) discovered a new phenomenon called hyperionization, which he claims will be of invaluable use to mankind. Note that a similar set of criteria is used to report deaths. We don't say Shakespeare has died or...

Could anyone please mark this composition for me? It doesn't have to be polite or formal, thank you so much My physics teacher The best teacher I have ever had was a friendly and middle aged woman and her name was Blanca. She wanted to work for NASA in the US as an...

Englishuser wrote:Hi Marvin A., You wrote: It's associated with California English and Valley girls for the most part. Valley girls? It would be nice to learn something more about the Valley girl dialect/accent of North American English. I hope you, Marvin, can help me out. EnglishuserIt's...