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8. Why do you say “She is a one-eyed teacher” and not “She’s an one eyed teacher”? (Focus on a phonetic explanation) The article an is used before vowel sounds, not vowel letters. The word one is pronounced wun. The w is not a vowel sound even though the o in o-n-e is a vowel. So a must be used...

Nestor_fes wrote: 8. Why do you say “She is a one-eyed teacher” and not “She’s an one eyed teacher”? (Focus on a phonetic explanation). Although 'one' begins with a vowel, it is pronounced with the sound of a consonant - 'w'. 9. Miss Justine Fair listened to the two Chilean students...

I hear and feel you. The difference between full and reduced 'i' sounds is one of the more difficult to master for many non-native English speakers, as is the unaccentuated 't' in between vowels in American English that becomes a soft 'd.' I also struggled with these when beginning to learn...

You could be right about it being North American English. As a Canadian married to an American, I hear the difference between our Englishes mainly in the vowels. Americans have another low back vowel - they make a distinction between "cot" and "caught" and Canadians do not.

To ask someone to comment is not to ask them to do a careless check. It's asking if they have anything to add, change, revise, take out, fix, etc. Regarding the transitive/intransitive, either you or your teacher got it backwards. A transitive verb needs an object. (Note that it's AN object,...

Yes. Definitely. We know the difference between a vase and a base. We know the difference between going to the lab and going to the lav. We know the difference between a marble and a marvel. We know the difference between vowels and bowels. We know the difference between Vern and burn,...

I am not infatuated with the software that runs this site. Often I cannot post a message. I wrote a lengthy response to this, and then suddently everything disappeared. I think that this second writup will be shorter. Forbes wrote:Imagine a language in which: “The man hit the table...

Imagine a language in which: “The man hit the table with a stick” is “Copoloteko tipadela tisadure asutariki bu.” In this sentence co = a classifier indicating that we are talking about something animate polo = man te = a nominative case marker ko = the speaker wishes to emphasise the...

I think you could add "r" in some varieties of English. Whether a consonant is syllabic depends partly on the speaker and partly on the perception of the listener; some would analyse these syllables as containing a schwa vowel. I for one would say that there was no difference between "button"...

To continue..... I think the sound quality is an important difference between the two languages besides the pronunciation. The Americans tend to drone in the middle tone, wheras the English have a more lilting quality and the Welsh more so; but the vowel sounds are what they pick up on first. ...