I've been taking French lessons from the original Pepe Lepiew ... going to try this on my next trip to Paris. Lat time I was in Paris I went into a photography gallery that had a wonderful selection of very expensive ... it gives my

Well, of course, pure IPA is far too powerful for a dictionary, except to distinguish dialect. A decent phonemic notation ... has different vowels in British and American English, but 'man' doesn't. Can I find this out in an American

ADD: don't Well, of course, pure IPA is far too powerful for a dictionary, except to distinguish dialect. A decent phonemic notation would suffice. For instance, there's an extra low back phoneme in RP that I never know when to pronounce,

Redundancy of the week: a reporter spoke of the "official state visit" made by GWB. OED has 'state visit, a visit by a head of state to a foreign country for ceremonial rather than official purposes' so it seems a 'state

Note that the spelling of "Sara" suggests the "Mary" vowel, unlike the spelling of "Farrah (Fawcett)", which I pronounce with the "marry" vowel. But... but ... you and I both pronounce "Aaron" with

Come to think of it, if this is true of ... she used what sounded to me like the 'Mary' vowel. As I've mentioned before, I'm MINMINM and have always pronounced "Sara" with the "Mary" vowel. I've heard it

... } In the various and sundry accents of New York City English (The Dialect So } Nice They Named It NYCE), "dog" is the only -og sort of word (other than } the pseudoderivative 'dogma') that gets the "caught" vowel.

The short "o" is not always the same in Philly; ... dO@gz" using the "a" of "rat" in the 1s=t word. Not the "a" of "rat", of course; but, as I mentioned in another post, the Philly short-o as