"Peter T. Daniels" (Email Removed) schrieb im Newsbeitrag Mmm, OK, I come from an ELT rather than an ... having been using it all evening, what does 'marked' mean? It comes from early structuralism (Jakobson, Prague School, and

My fellow court reporting students and I are in disagreement ... insightful comments on this would be most appreciated. Thank you. Phonemically, it doesn't matter, as there are, to the best of my knowledge, no words that are distinguished by

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

Just as the /n/ in "sink" gets assimilated to a velar /N/ to match the following velar /k/, the extra ... because English doesn't preserve geminate nasals. The result is /'g@v@rm@nt/, which is normal, except for hypercorrectors.

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So the basic question is: Is the Cambridge pronunciation of vowels correct? Or are Yorkshiremen correct? I mean, to speak **propper English** do you ride a "BASS" or ride a "BOOSS". Which **should** it be? Cap or Cup? Why not

I'm British, and to me /'kwIksot/ seems like a ridiculous spelling pronunciation. I would use the allegedly US pronunciation /ki'hote/. I'm also British, but I say (and taught others to say) "'quicksote" (or more

According to Google the British pronunciation is "quick-sote" whereas the US style is "kee-ho-tay", but I have just heard a BBC announcer say "donkey-shot" How do you experts here handle this one ?

During lunch with my German colleagues today the following question arose: why is it that English has adopted a German ... a particular breed of long-bodied, short-legged German dogs, when German itself does not use this word for the same breed?

Greetings. During lunch with my German colleagues today the following question arose: why is it that English has adopted a German word, "Dachshund" (lit. "badger dog"), to refer to a particular breed of long-bodied,