Maybe the muscles in our lips, tongues, and throats get so used to certain patterns of motion that we just can't break the speech habits that we developed at an early age. Yes, but if someone practices hard enough, and they are also a bit

Could anybody tell when should I double the last letter and when I should double the last letter Hi, I hope you'll like the following excerpt from AskOxford . (When it comes to English grammar, beware of general rules ... more often than not

I'm Italian, Yeah, I bet. For the record, here's the opening lines of a letter I wrote on the 6th July. "Dear Toni..." For a group with this volume of activity the balance of probability suggests that's rather too

New York Times Magazine http://www.nytimes.com/ July 15, 2007 The Actualizer By MARK OPPENHEIMER Giovanni Ribisi called me. Burt Reynolds asked me to call him at home. The director Joel Schumacher called me from Romania between takes for his next

For example, in music, only vocals are singed.. Only in hot jazz. Maybe it isn't true... follow this Can you sing the word "Listten to the raddio"? or better "Listeen to the raadio" Sigers, make practice using vocalize, not

I'm Italian, and when I hear Saxon Languages like English, and German (especially German with cluster like tshcl), it sounds hard... too many consonants. For example, in music, only vocals are singed... i't obviously impossible to sing one

For the most part I agree. When a person here speaks in a Boston accent (for example) I would not consider their speech wrong unless they were trying to speak with something other than a Boston accent. Two of my favorite examples of accent

John Ings wrote on 22 Oct 2004: in every english sentence "Leaving out letters" is the wrong ... (however imperfectly) the spoken language, not the other way around. Perhaps someone can explain to me how Japanese got translated into the

Thanks! Nice and simple! ** /ae/ The vowel in hat, hand, pass is splitting into two varants. Before nasal consonants ... my visit in CA. I was surprized to hear "black plant" having very different vowels! Now I understand. Greetings,

That's neutralization to an archiphoneme, rather than allophony, but whyever would you use (S) in "Asia"? What other consonants do you devoice between vowels? At a James Joyce affair I attended, they had a female member of the music