Thanks for the replies. Due to assimilation, One can produce MPR instead of NPR;one can hear MPR Another example: " S n P" is heard as SMP, and is produced as SMP instead of SNP. By the way, raindoctor, are you a native speaker with

Hey, MrTom, LOL! You know I don't understand everything either (and especially if it's not the dialect I'm used to), so I just understand from the context. I tried listening to these pieces several times as an excercise, and here

"The phrase 'caught on camera' could n't be more appropriate, as a lardy sweat-bucket of a bus driver shows he has all the self control of Amy Whitehouse going out for a swift half. "Watch as the dastardly kids torment the

short 'the' (before a consonant sound) French le Oddly e nough, a large p e r centage of unstressed English vow e ls "reduce to schwa" in rap i d speech, including those underlined here. It varies, depending on the

(especially not the second one). Hi, thanks. Yeah, the second one clearly needs a context first (otherwise, how CAN you imagine anything? LOL) But the first one should be ok as a way to introduce something, why not? We use it this way in Italian,

Dear all, I requested from my tenant 14% increment for the rent of my appartment (according to the Cyprus law). He refused and I suggested to suffering 4% as to reduce the increment from 14% to 10%. Then, he accepted my suggestion and I

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

Anyone who sets out to classify anything soon finds that not everything fits into the neat categories he has devised. Whilst zoologists and botanists do not exactly have an easy time (zoologists thought they had mammals sorted until they learned

There is a tremendous amount of research going on all the time in linguistics, but I know of none that has enquired whether standard speakers are smarter than non-standard. Now I wonder why that is? Since the issue is a little too hot to touch,

IQ tests are a flawed thing, and good standard English will help you get a good score. But I'm willing to wager a large sum that standard speech and high IQ are closely linked. They most certainly seemed to be in my school and universities