If I want you to use the vowel of your ... order to accomplish that? What would you suggest I write? Before I made a suggestion, I would want to be persuaded that there was some good reason for you to want me to use a vowel when you don't know

In my kind of talk, in the sense you mention, ... clearly, a schwa replaces the vowel. "I k'n gowith you". Do you have the "pin"/"pen" merger? (If so, where are you from?) If youdo, your "kin"

It's not as bad as that. Many, if not most people, will recognize that "ah" as the "father" vowel. But how many ways are there in the English-speaking world to pronounce "father"? I see the point of

To me American pronunciations of "cot" generally sound either a ... of an American accent has something close to my "cat". I have a typical American accent. When you listen to my pronunciation of "caught" which is the

To me American pronunciations of "cot" generally sound either a ... of an American accent has something close to my "cat". I have a typical American accent. When you listen to my pronunciation of "caught" which is the

Skitt filted: I'm also fluent in Cat (and the related Mountain Lion), and have a serviceable smattering of conversational Coyote..r You'll have noticed then, that while Cat contains a wide variety of vowel sounds, they don't bother

In classical Latin pronunciation as understood today, "C" would be ... if that was a long vowel and the otherwise. I didn't think the Romans did stress. I thought (in poetry at least) it was all to do with long and short vowels -

I imagine the way the Romans said "Boadicea" was very ... fact, very close to "Boudicca" apart from the extra vowel. In classical Latin pronunciation as understood today, "C" would be a K sound, not a G sound as

Mark Brader filted: I imagine the way the Romans said "Boadicea" was very ... fact, very close to "Boudicca" apart from the extra vowel. In classical Latin pronunciation as understood today, "C" would be a K sound,

I imagine the way the Romans said "Boadicea" was very different from the English pronunciation. In fact, very close to "Boudicca" apart from the extra vowel. In classical Latin pronunciation as understood today, "C"