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No, I don't speak a Southern dialect or Ebonics. I have a Western accent. I'm from the Tsawwassen peninsula. Not everyone merges all of those words here, but everyone pronounces them at least close. Certain areas in Northern Wisconsin and the Upper peninsula of Michigan as well as some...

Are you sure they are exactly the same symbol? There are two different symbols for "u". If the dictionary is using IPA, one of the symbols looks like this: /u:/; the other looks like this: /ʊ:/. (The 2nd one may or may not display correctly on your computer.) /ʊ/ is used for "look", "book"...

>> In my dialect, ..."bang", "bag" , "beg" and "vague" do have the same vowel << Are you serious or is that a typo? CJ

>> hat, bat, bad, bag, ad, add << In some dialects ad, add and or bag would not work. If you're learning North American English, you could use the Inland North pronunciation of , thus "measure" would be pronounced as "maysure".

>> Native speakers can make mistakes with pronounciation. Unfortunately with English, the spelling does not always give you a clue to the pronounciation, so if people learn a word from seeing it written, they can make mistakes. << Native speakers can of course occasionally make a...

>> In my experience egg=ayg is a regional American pronunciation, chiefly rural or Southern, but it may be spreading to other regions. This pronunction is usually used by the same people who say measure=may-zhur. << The pronunciation of egg as .

>> Between vowel sounds (<i>Italy</i>), and between vowel and liquids (<i>title, butter</i>), the letter <i>t</i> is usually pronounced <b>/d/</b> in conversational English.  The<i> t</i> in steer, however, sounds...

Using / /'s imply that you're using phonemic IPA or XSAMPA transcription. If this is the case then that means that you pronounce "jaguar" as /jagwar/, which written in fauxnetics would be approximately "yahgwahr". Somehow I don't think you meant it that way. In IPA/XSAMPA, the letter "j" is...

Englishuser wrote:Hi, Jaguar. In British English it is Jag-u-ar but I believe that in American English it is Jagwar Don't forget that there is a /j/-sound in there! /Jagwar/ is the most commonly heard pronunciation in the US, although the 'British' one is also used by some GAE speakers. A GAE...

The Antonym of Sin In order to arrive at a suitable antonym for the word “sin”, one must understand the word as it is correctly used in the English language. This explanation will address the meaning of sin and its antonym in an attempt to assist in gaining a more thorough understanding. As a...