By Glottals, Pronunciation

Heh, I know in the UK there are lots of interesting accents. Some people drop this, skip that, shift vowels here, put glottal stops there... Different accent in different places, different social groups, different age groups... It's so in the US too, and in other countries too, I guess....

Anonymous wrote:It really bugs me the way Americans say a 'British' accent because more than one country makes up Britain, there is England, Scotland, and Wales, all of which have very different accents. Then of course all three countries have many regional accents which are again very...

1. Flapping When you pronouncing "it was" in casual, connected speech, could it be sounded like "idwas" or "irwas"? No. Like "water" as "warer", or "fatty" as "fady". 2. Glottalization In the same situation, can glottalization occur and pronounce as "it<glottal stop>was"?...

What it comes to flapping, it is prevalent in AE pronunciation. Therefore, 'writer' might sound like 'wider' etc. At least, this is how I have understood it.I'm not sure about that glottalisation either. Hypothetically, I guess one could say that "it's <glottal stop> empty" if someone ask...

This is a particularly rough one! can has just an n (of course), but it's a full n. can't has an n that is terminated abruptly by an unreleased t (and it may even include a glottal stop for some speakers) which gives the impression of the beginning of a t (but not the end). Even the a seems...

Hi,thanks for the reply.By "held" I mean "unreleased", and by "unreleased" I mean "not pronounced", that is, a glottal stop. That term ("held") is fequently used in the book who helped me improve my pronunciation.Anyway, this is too complicated a subject to discuss in a forum. There are often...

The following constucted dialect will give you what will sound like a Cockney accent to North Americans. All you have to do is change how you pronounce certain things differently and you will sound like a Cockney. The goal is to intruduce as many pronunciation differences as possible, to make...

Carlin wrote: I would like you to help me with this one. How do you produce the endings with -ton, and -tain, like in Trenton,Quinton, mountain and fountain. Please I'd like specific information on how to pronounce those ones. Regards. At most, pronounce them with the schwa (as in...

1. Here it is. 2. Here comes X. Although the /r/ is pronounced in #1, in BrE, it's very light: not at all as strong as the /r/ in "rats", for instance, or the AmE pronunciation of "here". Additionally, this would probably only apply to standard southern English: in some forms of Estuary...

Your speaking abilities surprised me as well. They are very comprehensible and I could understand you very well. You do have an accent, but accents are hard to get rid of, and as long as your pronunciation is fine, accents don't matter. My suggestions would be to: 1. Break up a few words...