Hello, I would like to know the meaning of the phrase "(when I) say froggy, jump". Does it come from a traditional children song or game? I found it on http://www.wrensworld.com/froggyjump.htm . But I also found "say

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Well, I don't know now. From a brief google, the phrase seems to be used to refer to surveillance cameras, which are becoming ubiquitous in American cities. And it turns out that "Eye in the Sky" was a hit for the Allan Parsons

I only know there's this website. It's supposed to be for American English though. http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/frameset.html Anyway, as long as you don't put your tongue in a completely different place (and

I love to tell this TRUE story. An Australian once wrote to a British magazine to demand that it swiitch to American spellings. The shocked editor published the Australian's letter under this heading: WHAT A NERVE! (By the way, some of you may

Living without literacy Life without the ability to read in American society is a daunting idea to the literates. When I came to America in the winter of 1993, I didn't had profound knowledge of English language. I was able to decipher all

The only way to hear a difference is listening to contrasting pairs, in my opinion. Minimal pairs, you know. Beat - bit fool - full etc. If you have such major problems, then maybe you could start with an accent reduction course. For American

I'm Australian, and it's always 'tanned' here. But I would contend that is what it's intended to be in American English, too. I always used to read/hear 'tanned' in American media and books, and it's only in recent

Don't worry: native speakers don't agree on prepositions, either. Some say in/on an elevator; some say in/on a chair; and in California, you stand IN line, but in New York you stand ON line. Furthermore, there are some differences between

I don't use that website either because it seems to pronounce words with an annoying posh accent, and there are no phonetic transcriptions. I just need the transcription because I already have my way of pronouncing each phoneme, so I usually