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

I was looking for some advice online on the use of the word feedback as a verb as opposed to a noun and came across this forum. Is this usage correct: "I will feedback to you once I receive the results." Is it proper to use the word

They are often used interchangeably in dictionaries, but if you take them as IPA symbols they are two different vowel sounds. /e/ is higher in the IPA chart of vowels. / ɛ / is lower. This means your mouth is a little more open, because your jaw

You kids, get off Schlock's lawn. I'm a lot more ... but the the good stuff will always find an audience. You also have to realize that there's alway been crap - it's just that yesterday's crap didn't survive to make ...

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I came across a feature of local dialect the other day (S. Lincs) - the stressing of "it" as if ... it ." It was being used by people with very rural backgrounds. Anybody else come across it ? That sounds blissful. There was some

As for the history of the vowel of "cloth", I think what happenedmust have been a tendency to lengthen "short ... England.) I'd suggest Wells's Accents of English , if you can get hold of a copy in New Mexico. I think there

Sorry, that argument won't work. You said "But of course, AmE is also notorious for its use of illogical double ... double negations" of which you speak must be instances of negative concord, and calling negative concord illogical is

After that I feel churlish disagreeing. But you've noted how prestige dialects of NYCE resemble "standard American", Superficially. which as we all know resembles the pre-NCVS speech of the upper Midwest, the Great Lakes area, a

http://www.slate.com/id/2112150/ Linguists Gone Wild! Why "wardrobe malfunction" wasn't the Word of the Year. By Jesse Sheidlower Posted Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2005, at 11:05 AM PT OAKLAND, Calif.-You know you're at the Linguistic