A good online source for BrE phonetics is Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary at , which uses IPA. A feature that I find interesting in the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary is that it gives using IPA both British and US

'Round here we use /@/ for a schwa; /&/ is ... consider the pronunciation too obvious to wasteink and paper on. A good online source for BrE phonetics is Cambridge AdvancedLearner's Dictionary at , which uses IPA.For

A good online source for BrE phonetics is Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary at , which uses IPA. For "carver", they have /'kA:v@(superscript r)/. The superscript r is the "linking r" of non-rhotic BrE, only

Waddayamean "if". Did Praat ever lie to you before? Praat never lies, It does sometimes, but it's usually easy to tell when it's doing so. When I have any doubt about the credibility of Praat formants, I superimpose formant plots

Indeed, that's what we CINCs have been saying all along: your "ah" sounds like "aw" to us. If you say that to me, you say nothing. As a description of a sound, "aw" has no useful meaning. It seems pretty clear to

My "um" rhymes with "gum", except the vowel can be extended. Ah, that's what I expected. MWCD11 has two pronunciations, " a prolonged m sound, @m." This makes me suspect that it is a word like "ahem,"

I contend that the preferred CINC AmE "cot" vowel is central, not back. That's what God's own "ah" is. A low, unrounded central vowel. I tend to interpret phrases like "preferred CINC AmE speech" to mean

I think all of your cot/caught vowels sound like normative CINC AmE "aw". Suddenly you're throwing around this word "normative", which means about the same as "prescriptive". No one can be rightfully prescribing

Well, latha, generally speaking, the rule says that between two vowels the sound must be pronounced /z/, as well as when you write and and sometimes . If it is next to consonants or it is written as a sibilant, then it must be pronounced /s/. For

This I don't understand. What rule do you have in mind which might, when misapplied, lead to "erster" from "oyster"? You have a dialect where, say, "bird" is (bV"Id) and it starts to get ridiculed