My English teacher, the lateBobby Byrne of Ard Scoil Ris in Limerick, taught us that polysyllabic words, ending on a single consonant, preceded by a single vowel, with the stress on the final syllable, doubles the final consonant before a vowel

http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/ Kyle MacDonald, a Montrealer, began with one tiny red paperclip, which he traded online for a fish pen, then a doorknob, then a Coleman stove. Eventually, he traded up to a snowmobile, a recording contract and,

Many thanks for the explanation. Having recently returned from a ... It's the silent consonants that are more troubling, I find. They're not really silent consonants, they are strictly speaking modified consonants that follow the standard

You are not the only one, even I did not ... (Often known as John Lawler but not in the groups) Many thanks for the explanation. Having recently returned from a holiday in Ireland, my interest was piqued. It's the silent consonants that are

I must be slow this morning, but I got there in the end. You are not the only one, even I did not get it straight away. As John seems to have noticed, ... of the many silent vowels in Irish. Seán O'Leathlóbhair (Often known as John

I must be slow this morning, but I got there in the end. You are not the only one, even I did not get it straight away. As John seems to have noticed, in day to day life I am John Lawler. But when I first started posting to this group and

At 19:22:12 on Fri, 4 Mar 2005, HB (Email Removed) wrote in : Forgive my ignorance, but can anyone name a few English dialects? We always learned (translator school in Flanders) that English had many accents, not dialects, the only dialect we ever

If you tell me the name of the program, I can tell you how PROnounce is different. Almost all the major language learning PC software titles use template-based pronunciation analysis. Such systems often score people worse for missing the exact

howard richler infrared: FWIW, Encyclopedia of Word & Phrase Origins by Robert Hendrickson says that the likely origin is from the Irish sionnachuighim, '"Í play the fox" or "I play tricks." How is that word pronounced?

I'm not sure that I can detect the difference between the 'or' andthe 'ore' classes. They both sound the same to me. Could you perhaps elaborate on this? Aaron can almost certainly describe the history better than I can, but