Hey guys, Here's a list of commonly mispronounced words in English. Very interesting and useful, in my opinion. Enjoy! Feel free to post any other ones that you've come across. A No: acrossed | Yes: across It is easy to confuse "across" with

By the way, do you happen to know any good books on English phonology you can recommend? What I'm looking for is something more than an accent reduction course, something comprehensive, where important phonological features are not omitted or

History of English Language-Funny or reality? In the beginning, there was an island off the coast of Europe. It had no name, for the natives had no language, only a collection of grunts and gestures that roughly translated to Hey!Gimme!, and

I remember listening to a radio programme about the varieties of forms of speech in Italy ... They simply change language like they change clothes without worrying about the status of their "home" speech. There's some truth in that

Well, you are supposed to write about the *new* trends in Canadian English. Not the history of CE. I think that the Canadian Shift would probably be your best bet--it is a very recent innovation, and thus is one of the few features of CE that

You should find this wiki article on British English accents and dialects useful Yep, already finished that one yesterday. I don't know how many different English accents there are. Some areas have their own accent and even some cities/towns

accent: a way of speaking typical of a particular group of people and especially of the natives or residents of a region dialect: a regional variety of language distinguished by features of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation from other

At Indian call centres when they are dealing with western customers, they do not use Indian English. They use British or American English. They even go so far as to give themselves English names and some companies give lessons in English (or

So what's your definition of American English (or North American English, as some prefer)? I would probably define it mostly by its phonology. It would be pretty hard to define. Or why not just say, any dialect of English spoken in North