A spelling tip: words like table and noble have what the Americans call a long vowel (tay, noh). Isn't it diphtongs? Spelling tip number two... Diphthongs has more Hs than you'd expect. Maybe you could visualize some "different

A spelling tip: words like table and noble have what the Americans call a long vowel (tay, noh). Isn't it diphtongs? /ei/ and /eu/. The second /e/ bottom up, /i/ without the dot and the /u/ like an omega bottom up - it is difficult to write

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I wonder which variety of English CyberCypher/Franke would consider "dumbed-down ... rabbit" or the version in which people say "Welsh rarebit." He wouldn't be able to tell; the pronunciation is identical. Three

(My Uncle Maurice (and all the rest of us) used while he was alive (the rest of us still so use) to pronounce his name ('mOris) (MORRis).) I assume you used and use to use the 'orange' (cot) vowel in "Morris" /mAr@s/ (rhyming

Dylan Nicholson infrared: "Crèche", always in RobertE's UK sense, often retains its French grave accent and the vowel is closer to that of "air" rather than "mesh". In Aus. I've only ever heard it pronounced

Well, there's Hangul, which I've seen explained as being pictographic at base, with the pictures representing the position of the vocal aparatus. Not for vowels it don't. As I understand it, hangeul does not reflect entirely the spoken

Mxsmanic wrote on 20 Apr 2004: Yes. The contraction is spoken with a very reduced vowel. They are pronounced the same way in American English. I speak American English, maniac, and I don't agree with your judgment here. "should of"