I would need more information about the speech of the person in question to be able to say whether "whut" was being used here as eye dialect or simply as phonetic spelling. Very good point. Obviously, as a BrE/AusE speaker, my

"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

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

When I try to pronounce (IN), (&N), or {EN), it seems difficult and unnatural. But (A:N) (as in "wrong") and (VN) (as in "hung") are no problem. I find (&N) unnatural to pronounce as well, but no more so than I find

Well, of course, pure IPA is far too powerful for a dictionary,except to distinguish dialect. A decent phonemic notation would suffice. For instance, there's an extra low back phoneme in RP that I never know when to pronounce, since it

Well, of course, pure IPA is far too powerful for a dictionary, except to distinguish dialect. A decent phonemic notation ... has different vowels in British and American English, but 'man' doesn't. Can I find this out in an American

I've always wondered why English dictionaries use IPA instead of the idiosyncratic systems they force their users to decipher tradition, probably. IPA, whatever the variant, makes much more sense, especially to people who have learned other

Don't you mean /lV"v/ ? /l@v/ suggests to me something ... not at all what 'lurve' would be meant to signify. For me (and for MWCD10), the first syllable of "leviathan" has /I/(or possibly /E/). I agree with John's

In the latest Discworld book, Monstrous Regiment (the ... standard pronunciation here, /l@v/, again implied to be somewhat substandard. Don't you mean /lV"v/ ? /l@v/ suggests to me something like the first syllable of 'leviathan',

Ruud Harmsen wrote on 31 Dec 2003: 31 Dec 2003 14:08:31 GMT: CyberCypher : in sci.lang: Please explain how stress is not phonemic in English in ... the acid. You're an expert, not an amateur like me. In the verbs, the first syllables have a