Dylan Nicholson infrared: "Crèche", always in RobertE's UK sense, often retains its French grave accent and the vowel is closer to that of "air" rather than "mesh". In Aus. I've only ever heard it pronounced

Well, there's Hangul, which I've seen explained as being pictographic at base, with the pictures representing the position of the vocal aparatus. Not for vowels it don't. As I understand it, hangeul does not reflect entirely the spoken

Mxsmanic wrote on 20 Apr 2004: Yes. The contraction is spoken with a very reduced vowel. They are pronounced the same way in American English. I speak American English, maniac, and I don't agree with your judgment here. "should of"

I'd go with /'&t@,mit@r/ ("AT-uh-mee-tur"), except with a tap for the /t/ sounds, which would make it, in ASCII IPA, /'&*@,mi*@r/ ("AD-uh-mee-dur" is the closest that pronunciation spelling can come to

"Molly Mockford" (Email Removed) a écrit dans le message de : Why is it a university, but an umbilical cord? Because of the pronunciation, not the spelling. University is pronounced Yooniversity (i.e. a consonant-sound rather than a

"Cues" I'd interpret as a single vowel-sound which happens to be written as two letters - it rhymes with "booze". Depends where you hail from. The pronunciation guides of dictionaries notwithstanding, booze rimes with lose

: So how does the rule on "u" and "a" or "an" work (or all the vowels for that matter)? Why is it a university, but an umbilical cord? Because of the pronunciation, not the spelling. University is pronounced

vowel 'ay' in 'bank', 'language', etc. and you may well ... 'ay' is the long form of 'e'. Hope thishelps, Janet We have here a confusion between two different definitions of "longvowels." I and

Wow. I'm pleased to have received so much follow-up on ... I think you're getting confused. You say you hear the vowel 'ay' in 'bank', 'language', etc. and you may well do. But the vowel 'ay' is not the long

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