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Hwat for what is the original pronunciation and was the only form used in Middle English. In Modern English, many dialects lost the wine-whine distinction, and began pronouncing words spelled "wh" as simply "w", rather thn "hw". The original, conservative form is still around, and is considered...

From www.m-w.com syllable 1 : a unit of spoken language that is next bigger than a speech sound and consists of one or more vowel sounds alone or of a syllabic consonant alone or of either with one or more consonant sounds preceding or following 2 : one or more letters (as syl, la, and...

Thank you very much for your replies.But I noticed some strange things: CalifJim wrote:I don't make any change in the OO sound in you, you've, or you'd.Really? I thought "you" was not usually "yoo" (oo like in "too"). I also recently opened a thread about the pronunciation of "you" and "do". I...

Hi, I just tried to pay attention to the vowel in "you" and it seems to me that, in general, /jʊ/ is the most common pronunciation (it is more frequently heard). Maybe I didn't listen very well, but... that's how I hear it.

I think you would do well to listen to the words below at www.m-w.com to learn the pronunciation of the six R-colored vowels of American English. deer moorcare fur core tar These are the vowel-plus-R sounds used by most Americans. There are a few others...

Now on to the Texan that moved to Chicago. Like I said, Texas is a big state, with a huge accent continuum. The Westernern most part of Texas has a Western or Western-transitional accent, and thus sounds pretty well identical to a New Mexican accent. Eastern Texas has more of a Southern or...

Well yes back is always /bæk/ in NAE. "Beg" is more variable. Some people have tense-lax neutralization before /g/. According to Wikipedia: "Some examples of neutralization of /ɛ/ to /eɪ/ before /ɡ/ are beg, egg, Greg, keg, leg and peg's coming to rhyme with Craig, Hague, plague and...

Nope, a complete vowel merger means that you can neither produce nor perceive a difference between two or more vowels in a certain environment or all environments. In my dialect, the vowels vowels, so that I could transcribe them in IPA. I still have a great deal of trouble distinguishing...

The other thing that I was saying was that before /r\/, there is no contrast between tense and lax vowels in most definitions of General American and approximate accents. OK. But what I was saying was that what applies for /r\/ applies equally for /I/. Is there anything wrong with this?...

Hmm. Sorry for the confusion. Now I'm a little confused too. I was saying two different things: 1) The "ay" in play, is pronounced differently in different dialects. Such as a monophthong or other variations. Some dialects (such as my own) pronounce "ay" differently depending on the...