I was watching an old Doris Day - Rock Hudson film last night. Doris clearly said "lye-lock" for "lilac", but I suppose she was German. The *Cambridge Dictionary of American English.* shows that to be one of the pronunciations

I was watching an old Doris Day - Rock Hudson film last night. Doris clearly said "lye-lock" for "lilac", but I suppose she was German. The *Cambridge Dictionary of American English.* shows that to be one of the pronunciations

Mxsmanic wrote on 20 Apr 2004: Yes. The contraction is spoken with a very reduced vowel. They are pronounced the same way in American English. I speak American English, maniac, and I don't agree with your judgment here. "should of"

Southern American english varies widely in difficulty to comprehend. The deep south accents (Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi) are more difficult for me to understand when people speak. Then again, I live in Texas, so I am exposed to horrible

Did you people *never* learn short and long vowel sounds? "Tin" is short "I"; "teen" is long "I". The way it's usually taught in school is that "tin" is short "i" and "teen"

A very irritating know-all journalist on our local paper has used this word to show off with in his column ... that it was pronounced "flassid". OED indicates that it should be "flax-id" but NSOED and M-W give both. Any

Well, of course, pure IPA is far too powerful for a dictionary, except to distinguish dialect. A decent phonemic notation ... has different vowels in British and American English, but 'man' doesn't. Can I find this out in an American

The pronunciation of "r" is very difficult for some asians, especially r in the middle of a word such as " murder". In Standard British English the "r" at the end of a syllable isn't pronounced. This type of

The people behind us own two. I've heard people call them "dash-hoonds". They are much talked about in the neighborhood because The pronunciation of the first vowel in "dachshund" is IPA- ## # # # # # # # # ## according to

Although I know that it's pronounced "match-o" in English, Not American English "macho" is /mAtSoU/, the first vowel being the "father" vowel (I assume that goes for Eastern New England CIC as well). Is the