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The =stressed thee; unstressed before a consonant thuh; unstressed before a vowel thee

Now I'm thoroughly puzzled. Is British o (dog) the same as American au (taut)? I've never heard that before. I've always been told that we do not have the British o (dog) in AmE. British o in dog is very similar to American au in taut, but I don't think they are the same. I have always...

I'd say that there is a slight difference between the US and UK pronunciation of the word. The first syllable of Europe in British English is generally pronounced with the diphthong // while in American English it is simply with the vowel //. The diphthong // is a characteristic of British...

I pronounce the vowel in 'sang' as .

Marvin A. wrote:>> Now, said with a Southern French accent, it becomes , it should be less confusing for you. The French ‘o’ in ‘Côte’ isn’t a diphthong – it rhymes with ‘caught’ in RP. The Provençals, however, say it as ‘cot’ in RP.

The following is from the Online Etymology Dictionary.I 12c. shortening of O.E. ic, first person sing. nom. pronoun, from P.Gmc. *ekan (cf. O.Fris. ik, O.N. ek, Norw. eg, Dan. jeg, O.H.G. ih, Ger. ich, Goth. ik), from PIE *ego(m) (cf. Skt. aham, Hitt. uk, L. ego, Gk. ego, Rus. ja). Reduced to...

I think this is another US/Brit division.There are three diphthongs / / that are found only in British English. American English in corresponding places would have a simple vowel followed by /r/ so vary in BrE is pronounced // while in AmE it is either // or //.

About the first two symbols, is pronunced the same as epsylon, the only difference is the shape of lips, you have to form round lips to have that sound, the same as you do in pronuncing /o/ or /u/. is pronunced the same as /e/, just with round lips. Just shape your lips to a round form and...

>>I've never fully appreciated the noun gender rules. Is it a case of when you are young you have to study the gender of each noun (das haus = neutral noun) or are there patterns that you follow? No, unfortunately there are no rules - at least not for the "simple" words. There are some memory...