I don't understand what you mean, it's just that "would do it" and "will do it" both sound somewhere around /wʊdːʉɪt/ to me, in connected speech. Maybe the difference lies in the vowel... I susped the vowel in

Ok, lol... then... I don't know if I understand your problem, but you are right, transcriptions in dictionaries are not accurate. But I don't know what to say, because it varies from dictionary to dictionary...I'll just give you a few

I remember at school there was a combined volume of "Billy Liar" and "The Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner" ubiquitous to the "English Rooms". I thought the latter to be the better story, better written; but

>> Now, said with a Southern French accent, it becomes << >> The sound I meant is as in RP or Standard British English. << Now you're really confusing me. Are you using IPA, or similar system for transcription? The letter

I've always wanted to ask Marvin what kind of accent that is. The pronunciation of diphthongs as monophthongs is known, but I've never heard of a bag-bang-beg-vague merger. Maybe it's some southern dialect, or a feature of some Ebonics varieties,

Thank you for your replies. these days I'm trying to improve my pronunciation a little (I'm reading "American Accent Training" by Ann Cook, I also have the audio files) CalifJim wrote: As for the second component, it is often some

Sorry, this will probably be a really long post. My mission? To dispell false notions about American English First, we do NOT say "drug" as the past tense of "drag." It's dragged! There are only three kinds of Americans who would say this:

Someone sent me a Saturday Humour e-mail which played on ... not let them take the carts out. Is that CINC? No, that sounds more like Southern/South Midland. We know from the examples of Coop and, perhaps, Ray Wise, that South Midland dialects can

}> }> >> Do the rhotic dialects even pronounce "r" in a final unstressed "-er"? }> > }> > Yes. Our "teacher" would come out like your "teacher and friend", }> > probably; when