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

I don't fully understand what a contraction is. So if I put an 's, 'll, 'd, 've, etc after any word does it make it a contraction? Only in spoken English. But in written English, some contractions are not usually written that

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

NSEspeaker: My car needs washed. SE speaker: What? I do not understand you. There was a posting recently exactly with this syntax. The people who commented never said that the NSE line would not be understood, only that it was characteristic

Just for interest I had a trawl through Google Books and found a couple of early instances of this use of "all's", evidently in British publications by British authors. One from 1897 (

I just thought ealrier today that "th" and "d" in fast unclear speech must be indistinguishable, after I heard something on youtube. I'll try to find it again. (EDIT: On second thought I think that depends a lot on the

Who has pretty much replaced whom is American dialect speech but technically, whomever is correct here. Who is for use with the subject of a phrase. Whom is for the object of a phrase. In the example 'I' is the subject and it is the

Hi (and welcome to Englishforums Smile), As I know, in modern English the vowel is no more pronounced as... ouch! The vowel must always be pronounced the same, since it's an IPA symbol that describe a sound. IPA symbols don't change, they

Thanks! Some verbs seem to be halfway between phrasal verbs and normal verbs followed by a normal adverb. I guess it's those kinds of verbs that sometimes confuse me. Put something in the box is not a phrasal verb though, so expect this to

Interesting question. Me and her, we agree on that... is definitely common, but I wouldn't know what to say about the other options. For some reason, "her and I" in that example doesn't sound too bad to me, and it might even