From the Cambridge Dictionary: programme (PLAN) UK , US program Show phonetics noun a plan of activities to be done or things to be achieved: The school offers an exciting and varied programme of social events. The rail system is to put

I remember at school there was a combined volume of "Billy Liar" and "The Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner" ubiquitous to the "English Rooms". I thought the latter to be the better story, better written; but

Yes, yes. But you do have to put forward some ... you have to provide evidence that that might have happened. One should not insist that the etymology of an idiom be proven more precisely or accurately than the etymology of words and phrases that

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I think (V) - as it's conventionally used, not as ... mean the latter here to correspond to IPA "turned a". Isn't the conventional use of (V) just to describe whatever vowel sound occurs in "cut" in the variety of

The maximum onsets principle isn't universally accepted. See http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/syllabif.htm which ... /n/ goes in the third syllable because of stress.) Jonathan Who is Wells? Professor of phonetics at University College

"Peter T. Daniels" (Email Removed) schrieb im Newsbeitrag Mmm, OK, I come from an ELT rather than an ... having been using it all evening, what does 'marked' mean? It comes from early structuralism (Jakobson, Prague School, and

I think it might be an idea to have something on the website about "short" and "long" vowels, because there does seem to be some confusion about this. Long and short vowels (in the layman's sense of "long" and

My fellow court reporting students and I are in disagreement ... insightful comments on this would be most appreciated. Thank you. Phonemically, it doesn't matter, as there are, to the best of my knowledge, no words that are distinguished by

AUE Apocrypha Update... We've long sought a solid attribution of "ghoti = fish" to George Bernard Shaw: . Various cites have turned up from 1938 onwards, though nothing ties "ghoti" to Shaw until 1961 (more than a decade