Maybe somebody at sci.lang knows why the Greek prefix "epi-" came into Hebrew once as "'api" and once as "'afi", or "'aphi" if you like. Hebrew phonology is such that word-initial (epi) is

Hebrew phonology is such that word-initial (epi) is impossible. (p) and (f) are allophonic (variants of the same phoneme), with (p) appearing only after a consonant, or doubled after a short vowel, or in word-initial position. The "a" in

Larry G infrared: I was watching "the Croc Hunter" the other day and ... care to tackle an IPA, or other, representationof that one? I see you're not getting any responses from Australians in this thread. The problem is that our own

Larry G infrared: I was watching "the Croc Hunter" the other day and thoroughly enjoyed listening to the accent. I find the way ... "u" vowel happening there. Any Aussies in the group care to tackle an IPA, or other,

I'd go with /'&t@,mit@r/ ("AT-uh-mee-tur"), except with a tap for the /t/ sounds, which would make it, in ASCII IPA, /'&*@,mi*@r/ ("AD-uh-mee-dur" is the closest that pronunciation spelling can come to

I was watching "the Croc Hunter" the other day and thoroughlyenjoyed listening to the accent. I find the way Australians pronouncevowels fascinating. You should try New Zealand. One word I was particularly fascinated with and find hard

People I know from elsewhere usually refer to the city as DEE-troit (in an exaggerated manner; they aren't innocently mispronouncing the name). I've heard this pronunciation from non-Detroit Michiganders. (Well, it sounded like

As MWCD11 puts it, in the usage note under the ... pronunciation of kilometer does not parallel that ofother metric compounds." It's difficult to see exactly what they mean by that. Sure, they say that the 2nd syllable stress has a ... I

Tony Cooper typed thus: There's a knot that sailors use called a "bowline hitch" that has the "how" sound Not in UK sailors' English - bowline starts with the "go" vowel, and finishes as though there were no e

Hi Yo, A vowel sound is determined, as suzi rightly pointed out, not by its look, but by its sound. Two of the most confusing semi/half consonents in Engish are those such as /ju:/ in "Europe and /w/ in "one". The looks of these are very