Jame is a very peculiar name, but you can contract it with is as you have done. The pronunciation of Spanish is and Spanish's is the same, so there's no point in using the apostrophe construction. Use the contraction only when the

) An adjective is a part of speech that modifies a noun or a pronoun. -- OK ) The exam was adjourned since the the professor was ill. ) The government has adjudged that the country's economy is experiencing hard times so the tax rates will be

Those examples made your answer even better. English phonetics is the most interesting thing I've ever heard. When I started to learn english, I thought it was easy. Now it's my favourite hobbie. "If it's hard, then diserve to be

Yes. Pronouncing "-ing" as "in" is an American dialectic. Authors will even show this pronunciation by using a single quote in spelling, similar to the contraction. He's goin' to the store. There are many American

Hello everyone I'd like to know how americans pronounce the /l/ in syllable-end contexts like the one in the words "always", "already", "also", and in the end of the words, like "call" and the

On second thought, I think I once read somewhere that "I've" is used that way in the UK sometimes, maybe for possession. But since I am not sure, it might be very rare,I have never actually "heard" it, and I have probably

Dear Howard Leigh Ph.D., If we are going to get into silly mudslinging battles over the word "often" and claiming illigitimacy of posts due to lack of name, qualifications, and misspellings then I suggest that you start with the very

Hi Cool Breeze, How's and house are different in that how's is a contraction of how and is , two words, and the rule applies at least in theory in such cases. This is exactly the rule I had in mind! What you offered previously simply was

Anonymous wrote: How's is pronounced , with a voiced s because there is a vowel sound before the s. Your rule about English /s/ being voiced after a vowel sound does not always apply (house below is not pronounced with a /z/-sound although

Dear Mister Micawber My teacher said other examples too For example Low and order is pronounced in this way that we pronunce an extra r between low and and and pronounce and in this way: (Shwa) ən I want to know this action in