Hello everybody ! I've noted that the indefinite article "a" is sometimes pronounced "weakly" (glottal or uvular, at the very back of the mouth) and sometimes "strongly" (like the "a" in "base"). Could you tell me if these uses depend on specific

No it isn't. The word is pronounced eve - ning. No glottal stop in the middle. You can't pronounce an 'e' as a glottal stop, only some 't's and occasionally some 'k' sounds. A glottal stop is a sound made right at the back of the mouth/top of

Hi, I'm not a Cockney but I was born and bred near London so have heard the accent quite a lot. Do you really need Cockney? I ask as there are not really many people who speak in that accent anyway - certainly not all working-class Londoners.

Mike Stevens | uk.culture.language.english,alt.usage.english,it.cultura.linguistica. inglese in In article , Robert Bannister (Email Removed) writes Yep! "Buon pomeriggio" sounds weird in Italian as well :) In the UK? I thought that

In article , Robert Bannister (Email Removed) writes Yeah, you get overprecise people doing that over here ... I can't imagine an East Ender saying "Good afternoon" either. No, they would simply say 'ar'ernoon with glottal

In article , Robert Bannister (Email Removed) writes In article , Robert Bannister (Email Removed) writes Not ... is a nice trigger for a friendly smile over here. Yeah, you get overprecise people doing that over here too, but few of us say