Well, for a spanish speaking person, there's almost no difference between "v" and "b" and itos quite difficult to imagine that we gotta pronounce "v" and "b" together to get the sound right? Is there any

My suggestion to you, Arfy, is to use phonetic ... all sorts of diacritic marks distinguishing allophones of various consonants. The concept of "allophones" belongs to phonemics, not phonetics. An allophone is any of various phonetic

*Sigh* Not 'logically'. You're talking about sounds, so it's 'phonetically'. And letters and their names don't refer to sounds, but rather to writing. See http://www.antimoon.com/how/pronunc-soundsipa.htm for a pretty

} At the AUE site, there's a page headed "Pronunciation of } newsgroup contributors' names". The URL is } http://www.alt-usage-english.org/audio gallery/index.html } } When you click on "WAV" or "MP3" by my

I think all of your cot/caught vowels sound like normative CINC AmE "aw". Suddenly you're throwing around this word "normative", which means about the same as "prescriptive". No one can be rightfully prescribing

LEE Sau Dan (Email Removed) wrote on 02 Jan 2004: CyberCypher> True, but I do and I'm a native English-speaker. I didn't know that! And I want other readers of ... the sounds by the mouth are quite the same Mouth? You don't just use

That is a definition of /A./: what /A./ is is a particular vowel phoneme. Which one? It's the ... an unambiguous definition; moreover, it's defined in terms of the things that phonemed ought to be defined in terms of. If it's a