These are four different sounds: /s/ /z/ /S/ /Z/ You heard correctly: derision and vision have the /Z/ sound. mansion and pension have the /S/ sound. The "s" is intervocalic in the first two of these (between vowels); the "s" is between the

I'd like to know whether there is a way to know how to divide a word into syllables, other than by practice, by seeing them divided once and again. None of my two dictionaries show these divisions, and in almost every book I read the text is

The appropriate pronunciation of the plural ending depends on how the word ends, phonemically. The rules are as follows: * For words ending with a vowel sound or a voiced consonant sound, the correct pronunciation of the plural ending is /z/

Yes, the M-W is a typical AmE pronunciation of immediately . I have a feeling that, since you are a Spanish native speaker, your terminal consonants and consonant clusters ( stre ngths , fi rstly , etc.) are not as clear as your teacher would

Su Cheng Zhong wrote: During the long linguistic history, I can only find three models of language. These do not seem to be models of language to me, but instead models of writing systems. Do you really believe that Semitic languages do

Hi, The rule regarding the pronunciation of "the" is such that it differs based on the word's sound - whether it is consonant-sounding or vowel-sounding. OK, but my question (sort of) is that in your educated guess, how people in those

Hi Bluealbatross, I live near Newcastle, and answered your similar question in the thread entitled: "Received pronunciation and mid Atlantic English" ...but I've pasted it here in case anyone wants to continue on this thread: I don't

I don't think I'd recommend learning the Newcastle accent if you want to learn a British regional accent. Its often reckoned to be one of the most difficult of accents to understand - not only for non British, but for many British themselves!

Hi, I am having a debate with co-workers regarding which indefinite article to use preceding Hispanic. We agree the article a precedes words beginning with a consonant, the article an precedes words beginning with vowels. We also know an

in addition to what others have said, the distinction between vowel and consonant is not clear cut. no dividing line. /w/ , the sound at the beginning of words like 'witch', 'wear' and 'walk', is both vowel- and consonant-like. when you look