I would need more information about the speech of the person in question to be able to say whether "whut" was being used here as eye dialect or simply as phonetic spelling. Very good point. Obviously, as a BrE/AusE speaker, my

It's not a matter of "how some British newspapers think 'macho'should be pronounced," but how the British actually pronounce it. (snip dictionary links) I think you are giving too much credit to we (us) Britishers. Either

I saw Michael Jackson on the international news last night, ... before, although it must be old hat to the British. I didn't notice his name until a couple of months ago, when he went into hospital for cataract surgery and ... him 'Macho

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Jones: Hmmm...maybe you people aren't dumb. Maybe you just never ... that each English vowel has, in general, two different sounds. You might notice that he's posting from the UK. Evidently the notion of "long" and

"FLACK-sud," This I'm the wrong person to ask about such things. The subject of the pronunciation of vowels is a weak spot of mine. I rarely follow any of the threads where the various pronunciations of a given vowel in different

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"

Phonetically, of course, the only place most of us in the US have a length contrast is in pairs like "cap" and "cab", where the only phonetic difference is that the vowel in the second is longer. That may be true of "most

Jones: Hmmm...maybe you people aren't dumb. Maybe you just never learned the vowel sounds in terms of "long" and "short". ... with the actual length of the vowels. It just means that each English vowel has, in general, two

I know that I can't tell the difference (by ear, ... dialect of English differentiates between /i/ and /I/ before /N/. You gotta be kidding. "Tin" and "teen" are pronounced quite differently from each other, and the