I don't necessarily agree with this. "Dictionaries describe the most *usual* pronunciation"?? What does "most usual" mean? The densest and ... There are a great many people in the South that pronounce "help" as

A good online source for BrE phonetics is Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary at , which uses IPA. A feature that I find interesting in the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary is that it gives using IPA both British and US

'Round here we use /@/ for a schwa; /&/ is ... consider the pronunciation too obvious to wasteink and paper on. A good online source for BrE phonetics is Cambridge AdvancedLearner's Dictionary at , which uses IPA.For

This is something I've always wondered about. In an American dictionary the word "carver" is pronounced as CAR-v&r (The ampersand is a schwa). 'Round here we use /@/ for a schwa; /&/ is an ash. Both r's are clearly

True. But they share at least one thing in common: they're distinct. And I think they share other things in common too. For example, "ah" is never rounded; "ah" is never to the back of "aw". "Ideal" by

If you say that to me, you say nothing. As a description of a sound, "aw" has no useful meaning. It seems pretty clear to me that Richard means that your "ah" sounds like a vowel that, if he himself said it, he would prefer to

If you say that to me, you say nothing. As a description of a sound, "aw" has no useful meaning. It seems pretty clear to me that Richard means that your "ah" sounds like a vowel that, if he himself ... speech), but he is

I'm an American. My "ah" is the furthest back of my low back vowels that I discuss at http://alt-usage-english.org/A vowels.html . It's unmistakably a low back vowel. Sure, but you're a CIC man. No one is denying that you

My "um" rhymes with "gum", except the vowel can be extended. Ah, that's what I expected. MWCD11 has two pronunciations, " a prolonged m sound, @m." This makes me suspect that it is a word like "ahem,"

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