I quite understand why rhotic people would find the usual ... in the language where the combination "uh" represents this sound? Good point, "uh" doesn't really appear in traditional English words, does it? Searching on in

} "Raymond S. Wise" (Email Removed) wrote in message } }> }> Since the pronunciations are identical, this might confuse some people. } But }> it should be easy enough to memorize the distinction in spelling. "Used }

I don't see why. Other languages have no problem with ... English is, as we all know, already far from phonetic. Just out of curiosity...which languages are you thinking of? Well, the obvious are languages that have different literary and

There is definately an upstate NY accent. The vowels in the middle of some words are either changed or pronounced as dipthongs. Ill put the normal spelling of some words followed by the upstate NY pronunciation.. and then the north jersey

^ (= How?) Is this difference in the pronunciation to be expected? For ... then would he be able to predict the other's form? *Some* difference in pronunciation is to be expected. But which ones is completely unpredictable. While there is

^ (= 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

accent circonflexe) % is that diacritic I have never known the name ... smiley - so %u means a smiley over the u. That diacritic is called a "breve" in English. Thanks for that. I always wondered. - prince. There may well be people for

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