Interesting question. Whenever you see a couple of r's in any word in AmE, check whether you can dissimilate one of them; and this dissimilation depends upon whether it is a start of a word or whether it is unstressed, etc. Order: you dont

How do you pronounce those words in American English? There are basically six "R-colored vowels" in American English, represented by the sequence: Sharp thorns tear poor deer's fur. ( tear in the sense of rip ) You can look up

Kooyeen, I'm African American and being black has NOTHING to do with pronouncing the word "sword" nor does it have anything to do with Ebonics. That is an ignorant, stereotypical statement... It was just a guess, since CB said he

What do you mean? There are allophones of /t/, yes... At the end of a word (if nothing follows), /t/ can be pronounced in three different ways, as far as I know: 1) Released: you can hear the /t/, which is sometimes aspirated to some extent 2)

Hi I would like to know if there are any differences between the allophones of British (RP) /t/ and American (GA) /t/ specifically at the end of words such as 'ba t ', 'ca t ' , or 'hesitan t ' and 'restauran t '.

Well, it might just be the actor's accent that is confusing then. I seem to hear a bit of an r-sound before the vowel in trumps/charms too, so it would be more like "trom(p)s" (pronounced with the American vowel). But as Amy said, I

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Many linguists consider accent to be the indicative of someone's nativeness. I mean people who live in Scotland are certainly natives but they speak with a distinct accent which is hard to understand even by many native speakers. On the other

I only know there's this website. It's supposed to be for American English though. http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/frameset.html Anyway, as long as you don't put your tongue in a completely different place (and

I don't fully understand what a contraction is. So if I put an 's, 'll, 'd, 've, etc after any word does it make it a contraction? Only in spoken English. But in written English, some contractions are not usually written that