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)

Since that sound like a British accent to me, someone from the UK might be able to help us more. Anyway, I think I can hear the t-sound in the name, so I don't hear "Lisa". By the way, out of curiosity, Amy, do you listen to these

No, it's a slow and pretty "common" British accent, and if I was more used to listening to British English I guess I would understand everything. But I'm not used to British accents, so I can miss even the simple words, plus the

I've been away from this forum for a while, and meantime I've enrolled for a five-year (gulp!) degree in English (which includes grammar, literature, linguistics, and so on) at a distance university. Right now I'm starting to delve

There seems to be an issue of convention bewteen various dictionaries. For more, look at http://phonetic-blog.blogspot.com/2009/03/e-and.html

When it comes to "says", in AmE you usually here . You also hear . Difference between ɛ and e: vowel height. BET, PEN got ɛ

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-mid_front_unrounded_vowel http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Open-mid_front_unrounded_vowel.ogg

What is this ɛ?How is it pronounced?My Longman dictionary doesn't have it.I have seen it in French dictionary of oxford.   Thanks

A lot of people in the UK seem to speak like that. Americans usually say something like /seɪ/, while Brits tend to say it more like /sɛɪ/. Of course there are lots of regional variations, so some lower the vowel even more and say /sæɪ/ or even /saɪ/.

In a lot of British accent films I have heard actors say "say " like this sæɪ instead of seɪ .How is it?