Jackson6612 wrote: Okay, I agree that Pacino is pronounced as pa-chee-no because it's an Italian name. But does Al Pacino use English letters to spell his surname in Italian too? I don't think so . So why isn't Pacino simply written as

Please make corrections/edits to the following text: I'm sorry for digging up this old thread, but I thought it'd be useless to start a new one. Okay, I accept that Pacino is pronounced as pa-chee-no because it's an Italian name. But does Al

Alienvoord wrote: Scorsese is pronounced score - say - zee The English pronuncations of these words are approximating the pronunciations in the languages they are from. Pacino and Scorsese are from Italian, Sean is from Gaelic. That's why their

Is this true that in American English a is pronounced aey to rhyme with ace and major , and in British English it is pronounced with long aah sound as in are and father ? No. It's not true. Both American and British English contain many

Do you mean the letter name (A,B,C) or the letter sound (how it is used within words) or the word a (as in 'a' cat)? In British English the letter sound a is pronounced in different ways depending on the word. The word a is pronounced in two

Is this true that in American English a is pronounced aey to rhyme with ace and major , and in British English it is pronounced with long aah sound as in are and father ?

I clicked?? on this forums' what I think is hyperlink that said "learn English Letter Writing Grammar and Pronunciation" and saw this thing pop up and upon reading it, it got me thinking how best to align that or if it is aligned in the best way

I hope I post in the right place. I speak English for a long time now but today I've got a chat with a guy, who claims that in English letter 'o' under the strees will be pronaunced close to 'ah'. And I really can't remember any rule that says

whatever, in my opinion Pinyin's pronunciation is different from English letter's actually. Have you ever learnt Chinese Pinyin?