Ok, this was brought up on a VW/Audi forum, and as petty as it seems I got a friend in Jersey who thinks otherwise, and says that englishforums.com agrees with him. The word brought up was RC car, as in remote controlled car. I said "it looks

Hi TJH, and welcome to English Forums. The problem you're having is that "LED" is not a word, but an abbreviation, and is pronounced "ell-ee-dee." Because the pronunciation starts with a vowel sound (ell), you use

I can't dope out any. Please help.

I was hoping to find some pictures on the net showing how the shapes of the mouth differ when pronunciating different vowels and consonants, but I found none. Does anybody know where I can find some pics? thanks.

I would strongly disagreee with Hoa Thai's assertion that French is relatively easy to learn and that is it spelled as it is sounded. It most certainly is not. There are loads of homophones in the language. For instance the 'ay' sound

Whether you use 'a' or 'an' depends on the pronunciation of the first syllable of the word. 'A utility' because the first syllable of the word is pronounced 'you'. Since 'y' is not a vowel, you have to

In my school years, I learned that the semi-vowels are y and w . As far as I know, u is always a vowel, although it has more than one pronunciation, depending on the word. A utility , because it sounds as if it begins with the semi-vowel y . An

You completely misread his comment... ~"it doesn't change the pronunciation at all. this is where w WOULD be considered a vowel." He's saying that's when W is tacked on, and doesn't change the word, thats when it's a

Peter Groves Sun, 09 Nov 2008 02:44:19 GMT > Daniel Jones' EPD, which describes a pre-war kind of RP, gives the pronunciations /f(OR)lk@n/ (I'm using (OR) for the vowel of "fall") and /fOLlk@n/ (as in "folly") and

Peter Groves filted: I was with you (more or less) ... the birds themselves are in plentiful supply around these parts.. Quite apart from the birds, Ford have had a Falcon model around for years. In my part of Australia, it ... occasions I hear