At the AUE site, there's a page headed "Pronunciation of newsgroup contributors' names". The URL is http://www.alt-usage-english.org/audio gallery/index.html When you ... the pronunciation that's given to the spelling

I think all of your cot/caught vowels sound like normative CINC AmE "aw". Suddenly you're throwing around this word "normative", which means about the same as "prescriptive". No one can be rightfully prescribing

"Ersters" is definitely rhoticized in the Fred and Ginger version. I guess I was too tired to waffle, and I suppose it's possible that the Gershwins really did mean something ... they couldn't spell otherwise, something like

To me American pronunciations of "cot" generally sound either a ... of an American accent has something close to my "cat". I have a typical American accent. When you listen to my pronunciation of "caught" which is the

To me American pronunciations of "cot" generally sound either a ... of an American accent has something close to my "cat". I have a typical American accent. When you listen to my pronunciation of "caught" which is the

I started a new thread, because my question is not quite the same as what is under discussion in the ... a sound that, to us non-Americans, seems closer to 'a', so I started thinking about the letters 'a, o, u'. It's been

I have no luck in vowel discussions. All I can ... put in such a word. I'd call theirs a diphthong, Chances are yours is also a diphthong, though it may be a different diphthong from that which most BrE speakers ... seems to me to be

A spelling tip: words like table and noble have what the Americans call a long vowel (tay, noh). Isn't it diphtongs? Spelling tip number two... Diphthongs has more Hs than you'd expect. Maybe you could visualize some "different

A spelling tip: words like table and noble have what the Americans call a long vowel (tay, noh). Isn't it diphtongs? /ei/ and /eu/. The second /e/ bottom up, /i/ without the dot and the /u/ like an omega bottom up - it is difficult to write

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