Wells's (1) TRAP class, and also his BATH class for those of us who don't use the "father" vowel in "bath" etc. But particular accents of AmE show wildly different realizations of this vowel. At one extreme you have

That is not the only sense of "dialect" which is ... it would be a social, rather than a regional, dialect. I'm really not sure what you want from me, we're not going to agree completely on this subject. Now that we've

Was watching a BBC World newscast on my local PBS station the other day. The news anchor (BrE - reader) was interviewing one of Cheney's daughters. During the interview, the interviewer had what seemed to me to be an American accent, and I

http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/units/ling210-901/transcription/broad transcri ( http://tinyurl.com/62n4y .) Thanks. I didn't expect the URL to split like that. I'm glad to know someone's put together a page with ... is saying

I've encountered very few Americans without one. One of the interesting things I've noticed when speaking French is that some people hear my accent only after I tell them I have an accent. Often a person can be pinpointed to a state or

Laura F Spira typed thus: I fear that the only cure for STS is an ... of tune. Or you could breathe into a paper bag. I'm still lying down on the instructions of that Dr Zen so I can't reach the paper bags... You seemed to be perfectly

Hi I'm Kevin, 16 years old from Germany. 2011, I will get my "Abitur" ( A-levels, examinations...how to translate this ?? ). After it, I would like to be a au-pair in USA for 1 year, so I try to improve my English here.. I also would

This supposed "Standard American English accent" sounds like a variation on the now rarely-used term "General American": From the dictionary at www.infoplease.com , which appears to be the *Random House Webster's Unabridged

I wish people would drop this 'the' Manchester accent. There ... a resemblance to things you might hear up the Pool. There's lumping and there's splitting. Sometimes you refer to how things are the same, and sometimes how things

It seems that every time I post a comment it provokes a load of discussion threads. But not to be detered, I shall have a bash at another. Perhaps someone can explain to me one small point that has been a source of amusement, for ages. If yuh