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Hi, you asked Which is the correct usage please: " I have ordered a / an MRI (magnetic resonance scan) and will review the patient following this." Rule: With single letters and groups of letters that are pronounced as individual letters, be

Do you know roughly when this sound change is supposed to have happened? Not off the top of my head, but my guess is early post-Shakespeare. Perhaps earlier than that. The nature of ... /rOl/, became /rOUl/ - which is essentially the same as the

There's supposed to be a difference in pronunciation between the ... of Poul Anderson, but I don't think English preserves it..r That is because we don't have the vowels necessary for the task. Someone once told me that the latter name

The only source I have for the pronunciation of "Czolgosz" ... interpret the ad-hoc phonetic spelling "cholgosh" - /tSolgAS/, I suppose. If the "cot" vowel was intended in the first syllable, then I don't see any

Yesterday I came upon a phonetic spelling in which "o" ... of the name of President McKinley's assassin: "Leon Czolgosz (cholgosh)." The only source I have for the pronunciation of "Czolgosz" is the cast recording

Yesterday I came upon a phonetic spelling in which "o" represented /A/ I think that's the vowel it's intended to represent, ... America,* Ramsey used a phonetic spelling to represent the pronunciation of the name of President

Yesterday I came upon a phonetic spelling in which "o" represented /A/ I think that's the vowel it's intended to represent, anyway. The St. Paul (Minnesota) Pioneer Press reprinted a review from the Seattle Times written by Bruce

The article in question, at http://www.bartleby.com/68/0/6600.html says, "There are four Standard pronunciations of xenophobia: ZEN-o-*FO*-bee-(y)uh, ZEEN-o-*FO*-bee-(y)uh, ZEN-uh-*FO*-bee-(y)uh, or ZEEN-uh-*FO*-bee-(y)uh. " I take that

Not in England. It's /mOlbr@/ or /mOlb@r@/ here, though /mAlb(@)r@/ is probably taking over. In Flatbush (The Heart of Brooklyn ), Marlborough Road was and probably still is pronounced /'mArl,bVroU roUd/ by rhotics and /'mA:l,bVroU