By Diphthongs, Accents

Yes, there are regional variations in American English. Do you know which accent is chosen by MW as the reference in the pronunciation keys. Is it General American?My problem is that, as I have mentioned before, they are indeed denoted differently in British English. The first one is a simple...

Hi,you sound like you want to imitate George Dubya, LOL Seriously, I'm going to comment on the first part, just on some features though: Belly wrote:Here is the script: The Beatles were an English group of musicians from Liverpool whose members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison,...

Yeah, that's the feature I often notice......some schwas move close to i in bit, or e in bed, or the starting sound of the diphthong in say... somewhere around there.http://media11.filewind.com/g.php?filepath=6707 <--- this is a "Hey, hold on a second" where I noticed that feature in...

I suppose demicjusz is interested in how those words are pronounced by people who speak English, so I don't think my opinion here would be useful, since my spoken English doesn't contain many sounds apart from those that belong also to Spanish (so you can imagine my accent). With my nil knowledge...

>> Now, said with a Southern French accent, it becomes and / / marks represent IPA or X-SAMPA transcription.I would pronounce "cote d'ivoire" as /kot divwA/.

Hi Marvin,I think you are right. Actually, I think I pronounce "thanks" the way you suggested and not really the way I wrote. How strange... The fact is that I often don't even know how I usually pronounce a word, since I don't practice spoken English much (I'm in Italy, I'm not living abroad)...

Anonymous wrote: The American pronunciation of “o” in your next example wouldn’t be found in any regional accent of British English that I can call to mind immediately, though there is considerable variation in the pronunciation of this sound – for example, in Scotland, Liverpool and the West...

It’s rather hard to work out quite what you are looking for here. Some of these features – as Marvin A was pointing out – are not specifically American English pronunciation, but the allophonic variation that occurs in connected speech. That is, the pronunciation of some sounds is influenced...

@CalifJim So, do you have mostly a Northern accent or a Western accent now? Have you picked up the cot-caught merger yet (or did you come from the cot-caught merged region of the North)? Do you have the California vowel shift or the Northern cities vowel shift?