By Consonants, Grammar

Dagnabbit, New2, you guys are such great spellers, I assumed I was wrong about another of my famous double consonants! I even started wondering about "occurrence" and looked it up. Okay, two sets of doubles. Why not look up "embarrassed" while I'm at it? Hmmm. Two...

And I don't agree with you again. I have a friend who is Japaneese and my sister is learning Japaneese too. This language has so crazy rules in grammar! For example: when you're counting some things you use different numbers for things which are flat and different for big mammals.This two...

Does it start with a vowel or with a consonant?Is it countable?Can you have it? Can you dream it? Can you put it into practice?Hope this does not mean I'll be the only player here!

Hi Kooyeen, You're way more into phonics than I am, though as a choral conductor I'm always screeming at singers to sustain the vowel portions of the words, since the consonants (generally) cannot be sung. I'm not really going to address your question. I just wanted to caution...

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Thank you Grammar Geek for your compliment, I am glad to be here with you sharing and learning. In fact I have also meant what you said. If the pronunciation starts with a consonant sound then it takes "a", as in "university". Besides, as in "hour", the pronunciation starts with a vowel, and it...

CalifJim wrote:I read somewhere that Mario Pei, the linguist, tried to learn a different language every year. He supposedly claimed that Vietnamese was the most difficult. CJ I disagree with the linguist Mario Pei not because I am a Vietnamese. It is because I have seen, in my...

Thanks, anon. Without your post, I would have missed this thread. Goodman wrote:Hi CJ, What an impressive thread you have posted. You have slowly made me a fan of yours. Yep! CalifJim wrote: In any case, the struggle for the learner is always making the conversion from 'computing'...

Dear Cyndi:You have actually asked two questions in your posting: (1) Is the letter w a vowel? and (2) For how long have schools been teaching that the letter w is a vowel?Regarding (1), the answer is that w can be both a vowel and a consonant.Regarding (2), at least since 1861 in the United...

Lesson 1: Basic Pronunciation The following will make you sound Southern to non-Southerners: Pin pen merger: Pronounce "pin" and "pen" both as pin Lesson II: Grammar