By Numbers, Pronunciation

CalifJim, your comments on pronunciation of British vowels, particularly point number 3 in your list, refer only to RP, or at least English as spoken in the south east of England (and amongst the few upper classes people left throughout England) The majority of the English (as in nationality,...

I am not a phonologist, Latin. I am just offering what I know practically. From the dictionary, a phoneme is a basic sound unit, expressed with standard symbols like /æ/, /ə/, /θ/, or /ŋ/. Sound and pronunciation, I suppose, are less scientific words for how we hear and say a phoneme. ...

Hi A word with 7 consonants and 1 vowel is STRENGTH. DUBS The 5 letter word that keeps it's pronunciation with 3 letters removed is EMPTY remove EPY to give MT. lol

Hi Eric, I would like to know how I could contack you for details on the American accent and pronunciation. I'm an English instructor at Messiah College Foundation and presently staying in Quezon City, Philippines. I would really appreciate it when you send me your contack number....

Webster's on-line dictionary. Has audio facility. Hear words spoken in AmE http://www.m-w.com/ BBC learn English site. Has audio in BrE http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/index.shtml Randall's basic self-study guide. useful words and phrases in AmE accent...

Here is a humorous compilation of expressions set in Essex pronunciation. ESL/EFL students-- the misspellings represent the native pronunciation; see if you can figure out the actual words meant: A -Z of Essex English: ASSA COMMONS - Our Parliament Building. ART ATTACK - Extremely perturbed,...

Paco: I think at least in the case Japanse people, they need some to be taught some grammar overtly at early stages when they learn English. JTT: Paco, this is one of the major reasons that Japanese consistently score the lowest, or near to, in tests of English. This grammar translation system...

During the long linguistic history, I can only find three models of language. First one is Phoenician. We know that they invented the alphabetic system for the current alphabetic world. Yet they only recognized the consonants as information carrier. Then since Greek, the language recognized both...

If you don't like to use another explanation, then I try to explain it and you may correct it for me. The sentence of: "I like him more than she gives the impression of I like him more than she likes him." means: She expressed an idea that I like him more than she likes him. But in fact I like...