Hey, It's not only foreigners who mispronounce words in English. Even here in Canada we hear people mispronouncing words. Of course, it's not often but it happens. A word that people here misuses all the time is the verb To lie, they mix

here in Canada we say it like sohrd, we don't pronounce the W and sometimes you see some people, specially children spelling it like SORD. Americans pronounce it like that as well. I think it's the standard pronunciation. I don't know

Hi, How to explain the fact that in most dictionaries the word HOTEL is given with the stress on the second syllable though in the famous song it is pronounced as hOtel? Pronunciation can vary, particularly in lyrics and poetry where the writer is

I'm a high school junior, so i'll be talking from classroom experiences.  I'm in regular english and have completed 3 years of spanish. No English is not a phonetic language.  Languages like Italian and Spanish have only one way of

I'm afraid I misread your post. So I guess the Irish spelling is Cian, and the spelling you plan to use is Kean, which is anglicized. With "Sean," (my son's name) the Irish spelling is "Sean" and the anglicized version

I think the terms you are looking for are called 'vowel length' and 'vowel duration'. As it has been mentioned, vowels before fortis sounds tend to be shorter because the fortis sound needs more power, that is, it is aspirated.

You are focusing on that as a relative pronoun. The relative pronoun is required only if it serves as the subject of the relative clause. ... fish that people eat ... People eat that fish. fish is not the subject. people is the subject. that is

Yes. Pronouncing "-ing" as "in" is an American dialectic. Authors will even show this pronunciation by using a single quote in spelling, similar to the contraction. He's goin' to the store. There are many American

The are zillions of such examples (e.g. the different sounds in ea t and gr ea t). English is very irregular when it comes to its pronunciation rules. As far as I know, the reason would be the language's complicated history - it started it off

The broadcast media seem to have decided that "Ralph" should be pronounced "rafe". I've known of, for example, Ralph Richardson and Ralph Vaughan Williams for most of my life, but suddenly and fairly recently they've