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Hi Avangi,it's pretty complicated, I'll try to explain it better. I'll use an equivalent phonetic transcription to avoid IPA, because I heard not everyone can see the symbols.MW breaks the words into syllables in phonetic transcriptions according to how the words would be pronounced syllable by...

Hi,this is a weird question. I once discovered that syllable are important for pronunciation. For example, Merriam Webster says that coolish is coo-lish, not cool-ish. The reason must be that in coo-lish, the L is put at the beginning of the following syllable so that it's clear it's not as dark...

CalifJim wrote:I thought you were only looking for irregular verb forms.I am indeed looking for something like irregular verb forms. The comparison with bays, days, etc. is just a remark. But what is intriguing is that says is not an irregular verb. It is formed by just adding an s. It's...

I cannot find any word with ay or ai that is pronounced this way, except those with -says or -said at the end. I thought you were only looking for irregular verb forms. again and against also have ai as a lax e, if that's what you want examples of. And all the air combinations also have ai...

Pter wrote:Do you say /ˈnɒk.i.a/, /ˈnəʊk.i.a/ or /ˈnoʊ.ki.a/?Every vowel is pronounced clearly and never diphthongized in Finnish, so using the IPA symbols, the pronunciation is sound is pretty much the same as the British pronunciation of o in got or hot, perhaps a little less broad and open....

Hi, It has been my experience that students become lost when consulting dictionaries with regard to phonetic symbols as many times each one uses different phonetic symbols. This has caused much grief and I just tell my online students to stay away from it and try to spell the pronunciation out...

finite indeed has the tense i in both syllables. The tense vowel is the typical pronunciation for the last syllable of all two-syllable words ending in -ate, -ete, -ite, -ote, -ute, even when the first syllable has the primary stress, as in the examples below. innate, vacate, vibrate,...

According to EPD, there’re 2 pronunciations to the name ‘Danielle’. The 1st one has 3 syllables in it. Pronounce the ‘a’ as a short vowel sound (as in ‘at’). This is the one with the secondary stress placed on it. Utter the ‘i’ as the long ‘e’ (as in ‘key’). The 3rd syllable is ‘-el’ with the...

Hi David,here you can find some stuff about American English. Vowels, consonants, lots of stuff...http://evaeaston.com/pr/home.htmlOn that website there's also a link to this page, where the states are pronounced.http://evaeaston.com/pr/states.htmlIf you need to know how to pronounce a word in...

Aaaargh! Well, I often make mistakes... sometimes because I think of something while I'm actually writing someting else (ex: "things", but I think of "this", etc.). Often because my English is not good yet. What's interesting is that I might be likely to write "people seems", but I don't think I...