I've been watching some old English films and listening to some recordings of John Gielgud reading short stories. I noticed ... and this doesn't seem to me the case. And what would be a correct transcription in IPA of that sound? Dunno

That is not the only sense of "dialect" which is ... it would be a social, rather than a regional, dialect. I'm really not sure what you want from me, we're not going to agree completely on this subject. Now that we've

The pronunciation of the English word "faux pas" needn't depend on the pronunciation of a French word. According to an ... and "imprudent", among others. Would anyone recommend that we give all of those words their French

How did such accent come about?!! Only a backwardly hierarchal society like the aristocracy-obsessed little old England would go to ... my accent sound like? UK, non-regional. To some it sounds like "Americanized English" because I

Demetrius Zeluff wrote on 02 Jul 2004: Does anyone have any comments about this? I have to agree with the writer that recently there's been a marked increase in the use by American-speakers of what he calls Briticisms, especially "to go

The PBS stations show some British comedies and detective programmes regularly. Ah, but how many people watch PBS? And isn't that seen as 'cultural', like watching C4 or BBC2? Don't worry, someone will bring up Benny Hill in a

Does anyone have any comments about this? Makes very interesting reading from a right-pond perspective. Of course, we Brits are all brought up knowing everything there is ... event? As against probably, at the very least, one US show per evening

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At the AUE site, there's a page headed "Pronunciation of newsgroup contributors' names". The URL is http://www.alt-usage-english.org/audio gallery/index.html When you click on "WAV" or "MP3" by my name, you

care on take-offs. At 1000 feet and above, I'm less diligent. You may not experience the same