I’m a native British speaker. I would tend to transcribe the same vowel in ‘train’ and ‘danger’ – , and would also use this for and ; ‘missing’ would finish with unless you’re aiming for a strong London accent, and pity would have a rather than

"Ah" is sometimes pronounced like a "short 'a'" (the vowel ... one or two of those "h"s were probably pronounced originally. In romanized Arabic words, there are actually two kinds of "h" that end up

It seems that an aspirate has the air flowing *while* the consonant is being pronounced, without there necessarily even being a closure that's released. No, an aspirate consonant has a distinct sound of escaping air before the following

{d} is defined by the International Phonetic Association to be ... it seems doubtful that the consonant should be called plosive. It seems to me that you're confusing plosives and aspirates. I don't think so. The New Shorter Oxford says

"Ah" is sometimes pronounced like a "short 'a'" (the vowel in "cat"), as in some pronunciations of "Ah, shaddup!" but ... foreign words such as such as "Ahvaz," "Ahmed," and

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Redundancy of the week: a reporter spoke of the "official state visit" made by GWB. OED has 'state visit, a visit by a head of state to a foreign country for ceremonial rather than official purposes' so it seems a 'state