I'm pretty sure I *do* understand the difference between sounds and written symbols, and recognize that English is usually does ... in Spanish. I'd assumed then it a phonemic transcription would be something like /geit/. The phoneme would

I stopped reading Katherine Kerr when the same mistake was perpetuated in her 3rd or 4th book: she gave 'thin' as an example of voiced 'th'. This is from a book by Molly Gloss of Portland, Oregon regarding the Esperanto used in her

I'm confused by your "help" reference. What I intended to ... AmE dictionary that I have seen. Thanks for the help. To a Southerner, (hEj@lp) is exactly the pronunciation that an AmE dictionay indicates. And it's not necessarily

Which brings me on to another point. The second syllable of "idea" I pronounce the same as "ear", but I ... don't like that either, it seems much easier just to say + (without pronouncing the R of course). I pronounce