I don't recommend that site for any one. It is full of crap when it comes to AmE. Use either M-W and reference.com dude in AmE = 'dud Notice the yod-dropping, that is, no /j/ (in IPA) after alveolar consonants. What do you mean? I

I don't know of a webpage that drills these ideas, but here is some written material that may help. There are, in American English, five types of verb with regard to the pronunciation of the regular past tense. (The spelling rules are

As a learner of the Polish language I've come to accept that all consonant combinations are possible with enough practice. Ksenofobia is the Polish word for Xenophobia, pronounced exactly as it would be in English if a word-initial

Just so you know; I am American and my english is obviously going to differ somewhat from the British version. My question regards the use of "A" and "AN". My education has taught me "A" precedes words beginning with consonant sounds such as, "a

Anonymous wrote: >> Only one exception, after (the attachment was from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary) after the sounds OK: /fd/ the sounds like /ft/ << Nope. There is no difference where it comes to the

Hi Musesun It depends on the stress. Doubling occurs if there is one vowel between two consonants and the stress is on that syllable: for g e t t ing l e t t ing oc c u r r ed In interpret the stress is on the second syllable: . If the stress were

With regard to “figured out” which Kaufmann uses twice in that passage, - well, “figured out” and “figures out.” Another translator uses the word “divined” (gottlich ) instead of “ figured out” and yet another uses the word “grasped” (griff). I

Hello SpongeBarb, although I am not an English native speaker, I can help you, because -phile is indeed a suffix in many European languages. It comes from the Greek and originally means friend or someone who loves . The modern meaning is what you

In pural form it is written as Blackberries If there is a consonant before y, in plural it turns into ie, but if there is a vowel before y, in plural it stays the same. If you have any other queries please feel free to ask me Best regards,

Hi all, I'm studying Betty Schrampfer Azar's book, Understanding and ... I don't understand the explanation she gave about the reason. No reason. Just usage. Any time you have a written s after a t it's pronounced as an s. meats,