"Crèche", always in RobertE's UK sense, often retains its French grave accent and the vowel is closer to that of "air" rather than "mesh". In Aus. I've only ever heard it pronounced 'craysh' (i.e. with

Weaving tartans requires no special technology beyond the ability to count. They are just about the least subtle patterns imaginable. David There was a point when it was not possible to weave tartans. Then there was a point when it became ... a

"Family tartans" were invented out of whole cloth in the 19th century, just when transatlantic travel was becoming popular. Coincidence? Various authorities place the first identification of clans with tartans as being at the battle of

I have seen "crèche" spelled "créche" in a local paper: The subject was a crèche displayed at a museum here. As I pointed out in another post, "crèche" has long been pronounced /kreIS/, "craysh," in American

"Cresh" is new to me. "Crèche" (for a Nativity scene) ... as one syllable. I've only heard it as two: cre-'shay. What type of yahoo would pronounce it that way, I can't help wondering. The same type of yahoo who

Another American English v. British English situation. In American English a creche is a nativity scene. In British English, a ... it's pronounced as one syllable - as "cresh". As far as I know, "cresh" as a word itself

Hi all Ok, today's question is.. do you (as a native English speaker) make distinction between syllables when you speak a word? You know.. like.. first syllable, then second one and so on. How do you know where one syllable starts and ends?

Which suggests a technique I have mentioned previously in this newsgroup, and which several people seemed to think was a good idea. If you know someone who speaks Chinese with a bad English accent, see if you can learn to imitate them. Then use

On one of my satellite TV channels I occasionally see a Chinese lady reading the news. I don't know which ... separately from every other. There is no slurring and the words have a metronome-like regularity with no variation in length. Such is

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