I'm a high school junior, so i'll be talking from classroom experiences.  I'm in regular english and have completed 3 years of spanish. No English is not a phonetic language.  Languages like Italian and Spanish have only one way of

Maybe these things are not true in your speech. I ... aspirated. (Cf. "taiko" (type of drum) with aspirated (k).) If That is, you're not talking about phonetic stress, but a phonological description of stress. And I thought David

Greg> No. Adopting SPE notation, where 1 is primary, 2 ... "disco" is not stressed, and the "ow" in "somehow" is. Maybe these things are not true in your speech. I can tell that the "o" in

What spelling rules? In fact, why is it "spelling" why isn't ... English, and words like these just add to her confusion. Don't worry about it and tell your German friend not to worry about it either. All of us anglophones are

Dylan Nicholson rakstija: The short (in duration) e is not ... in "gate" sure is (unless you are Irish, I believe). Yes of course, I wasn't really sure what John was referring to. I can't say I understand fully why that sound

Of immediate interest is the fact that the AmE representative is MIMIM. Professor Peter Ladefoged, the author of the American English piece, says in the Handbook of the International Phonetic Association ... prefer to see AUE accessible to one and

} 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

AUE Apocrypha Update... We've long sought a solid attribution of "ghoti = fish" to George Bernard Shaw: . Various cites have turned up from 1938 onwards, though nothing ties "ghoti" to Shaw until 1961 (more than a decade

Also: "offn", "offen", "offun", "soffn", "soffun" and "soffen". Thank you for giving these excellent examples of why English spelling cannot be phonetic. A bit like Chinese: a common ...

like a the Also: "offn", "offen", "offun", "soffn", "soffun" and "soffen". Thank you for giving these excellent examples of why English spelling cannot be phonetic. A bit like Chinese: a