Not wishing to offend, but there's little more cringingly funny than someone who thinks they're speaking with a perfect upper-class British accent - unless it's someone who thinks they're speaking with a credible cockney accent. Don't get me wrong

To tell you the truth, I've never heard any foreigner (unless they learned English when they were very young, or had lived in an English speaking country for at least a decade, and had extensive, and personalized accent coaching) ever be able to

I've heard (say, in some British songs) the following pronunciation: the vowel in "got" was pronounced in a sort of ... where a similar thing could happen, say "pot", "stop", etc. I mean I didn't notice it in

This is something I've always wondered about. In an American dictionary the word "carver" is pronounced as CAR-v&r (The ampersand is a schwa). 'Round here we use /@/ for a schwa; /&/ is an ash. Both r's are clearly

I have no luck in vowel discussions. All I can say is that my "long o" (as in No) sounds very different to my ears than what most British people put in such a word. I'd call theirs a diphthong, Chances are yours is also a diphthong,

A spelling tip: words like table and noble have what the Americans call a long vowel (tay, noh). Isn't it diphtongs? Spelling tip number two... Diphthongs has more Hs than you'd expect. Maybe you could visualize some "different

I've never heard or seen Steve Irwin, but I understand ... pronunciations will have many people puzzled unless they use subtitles. Sometimes the TV news here in the US will use subtitles when interviewing Australians, Brits, Jamaicans, etc.

vowel 'ay' in 'bank', 'language', etc. and you may well ... 'ay' is the long form of 'e'. Hope thishelps, Janet We have here a confusion between two different definitions of "longvowels." I and

Well I must say that reading through this post there's a lot of scepticism coming from British people about americans, and rightly so, I'm British, and yanks don't half talk a large amount of ****. Accents in England are vast, this means that

While it was 23/11/03 10:39 pm throughout the UK, Pat Durkinsprinkled little black dots on a white screen, and they fell thus: mid-phrase the Over here, /h/ is a consonant. Or do you drop that sound in "historical" where you are? Now,