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Re: fair-haired

Yes, there are regional variations in American English. Do you know which accent is chosen by MW as the reference in the pronunciation keys. Is it General American?My problem is that, as I have mentioned before, they are indeed denoted differently in British English. The first one is a simple...

English Audio: Speech and Pronunciation by Pter 65 days ago Vowels Accents Consonants American English Pronunciation British English Spelling Diphthongs
Re: fair-haired

In British English, what you said are two different vowels and are in fact denoted differently in IPA. The extended ones are diphthongs.bet / bet /bear / ber / bee / bi: / beer / bir / (The non-rhotic "r" cannot be shown accurately.) I wonder my understanding of IPA for British English...

English Audio: Speech and Pronunciation by Pter 68 days ago Vowels American English British English Diphthongs
Re: How's and House - are they pronounced differently?

Hi Kooyeen, The vowels you describe are not the same, neither in General American nor British English RP. Because of pre-fortis clipping, the diphthong in "how's" is almost twice as long as that in "house".

English Audio: Speech and Pronunciation by Anonymous 186 days ago Vowels British English Diphthongs

Re: Question about how to pronounce Europe

I'd say that there is a slight difference between the US and UK pronunciation of the word. The first syllable of Europe in British English is generally pronounced with the diphthong // while in American English it is simply with the vowel //. The diphthong // is a characteristic of British...

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Orpheus 1 yr 8 days ago

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Re: Cote D'livore

Marvin A. wrote:>> Now, said with a Southern French accent, it becomes , it should be less confusing for you. The French ‘o’ in ‘Côte’ isn’t a diphthong – it rhymes with ‘caught’ in RP. The Provençals, however, say it as ‘cot’ in RP.

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Conchita57 1 yr 128 days ago

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Re: Cote D'livore

>> Now, said with a Southern French accent, it becomes and / / marks represent IPA or X-SAMPA transcription.I would pronounce "cote d'ivoire" as /kot divwA/.

English Audio: Speech and Pronunciation by Marvin A. 1 yr 128 days ago Vowels Accents Dialects British English Diphthongs
Re: American Eng. features in the UK

Anonymous wrote: The American pronunciation of “o” in your next example wouldn’t be found in any regional accent of British English that I can call to mind immediately, though there is considerable variation in the pronunciation of this sound – for example, in Scotland, Liverpool and the West...

English Audio: Speech and Pronunciation by Kooyeen 1 yr 186 days ago Vowels Accents American accents American English Pronunciation British English British accent Diphthongs
Re: American Eng. features in the UK

It’s rather hard to work out quite what you are looking for here. Some of these features – as Marvin A was pointing out – are not specifically American English pronunciation, but the allophonic variation that occurs in connected speech. That is, the pronunciation of some sounds is influenced...

English Audio: Speech and Pronunciation by Anonymous 1 yr 189 days ago Vowels Accents American accents American English Pronunciation British English Phonics Diphthongs

Re: e and a

I think this is another US/Brit division.There are three diphthongs / / that are found only in British English. American English in corresponding places would have a simple vowel followed by /r/ so vary in BrE is pronounced // while in AmE it is either // or //.

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Orpheus 2 yr 38 days ago

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No. of phonetics sounds in different languages ???

British English has around 44 sounds (24 Consonants + 7 short vowels + 5 long vowels + 8 diphthongs). I wonder, how many sounds are there in Standard (i.e. ignoring any regional variation) French, German, Spanish, Hindi & Chinese ???Lastly, which language in the world has the least & most...

ESL Linguistics Discussion Forum by Anonymous 2 yr 84 days ago Vowels Diphthongs Phonetics British English Consonants