Thanks for your feedback. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I speak like national personalities such as Tom Browkaw, Katie Couric, Jane Pauley and Diane Sawyer. This might come as a surprise to you, but all these people don't

I have no regional accent that I'm aware of - ... believe it's a regional thing that's causing me this dispute. It's not quite as simple as that. There isn't one, uniform general American accent. There's plenty of room for

I have no regional accent that I'm aware of - I talk just like they do on television and in ... vowel sound within the words in question, so I can't believe it's a regional thing that's causing me this dispute. It's not quite

i hit e beet u put u boot Of course in English (general American anyway), these pairs of vowels are not distinguished simply by length. The ... of them also pronounce "milk" as "melk" (mElk) and often use the "liquid

barrier'. Pronounced "mock", the Mach number is the ratio of the speed of a fluid, or of This would appear to be a case where pronunciation spelling doesn't do the job. I'm going to avoid ... British pronunciation of

It was apparently known as 'Mach 1' (pronounced in BrE as 'mack 1') in 1947. Pronounced "mock", the Mach number is the ratio of the speed of a fluid,or of This would appear to be a case where pronunciation spelling

It's not a matter of "how some British newspapers think 'macho'should be pronounced," but how the British actually pronounce it. (snip dictionary links) I think you are giving too much credit to we (us) Britishers. Either

"FLACK-sud," This I'm the wrong person to ask about such things. The subject of the pronunciation of vowels is a weak spot of mine. I rarely follow any of the threads where the various pronunciations of a given vowel in different

Did you people *never* learn short and long vowel sounds? "Tin" is short "I"; "teen" is long "I". The way it's usually taught in school is that "tin" is short "i" and "teen"

I know that I can't tell the difference (by ear, ... dialect of English differentiates between /i/ and /I/ before /N/. You gotta be kidding. "Tin" and "teen" are pronounced quite differently from each other, and the