Hi I'd like to know if Americans make the sound of "d" in the word protocol ? ...something like pro-do-kol Thanks, Tom

Hi again Inifinik, The Merriam-Webster Dictionary has only one pronunciation for the word LED. Click here to listen to it. And that is the pronunciation I always hear people use. For me, LED is not an acronym . I have only heard people use LED

Wow...interesting thread you all have going... as a Southern African American (reared in Mississippi, no less), I must say that I pronounce sword as sord (without the w), the way that I was taught to pronounce it in school. I don't think the

Language is not static; it changes all the time. In fact, the t-sound used to be correct. Quote: "Often was pronounced with a t-sound until the 17th century, when a pronunciation without the /t/ came to predominate in the speech of the

How does a word change in its pronunciation? This just doesn't seem correct. I hear this word mispronounced so much now I can't believe it. How are teachers in schools today teaching this? Where are they getting their information? All my

I'm not aware of any differences in initial T in East Coast pronunciation compared with other varieties of American English. It should be an aspirated T, not reduced T or D. Perhaps you heard an unaspirated T. I'm puzzled about what else

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

You need to check it in a dictionary if you know IPA (the phonetic alphabet). It's important to be able to read phonetic transcriptions in dictionaries. Anyway, I would say American commonly say skeh-jool . Brits might prefer to say

what is the pronunciation of "SUITE" - Computer Science I don't know the reason for this, but a lot of foreign IT folks dismally mispronounce this word here and there (it comes out as "suit"). I have to tell you

what is the american plural form of APPENDIX AND INDEX? lastly, what is the correct pronunciation between HOLE anD WHOLE? thnksss