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I am very talented with accents, but I have had to accept the fact that I am getting older and the ability to imitate an accent is diminishing. I am a native speaker of standard mid-western American English (considered to be accent free in the US). I speak Spanish with several regional accents,...

It is unwise to rely on the etymology of a word to discern its meaning, or, if it has a range of meanings, to insist that the "original" meaning is somehow "more correct" . Words mean what they mean. In any discussion of the meaning of a word it is often instructive to look at...

Yes I am little confuse now in between articles. Mr. Wordy what if i used sheet and mattress for the 1st time. Article A won't look like repeating or odd ?Its wooden frame supports a bouncy mattress and is completely covered with a silky sheet like a sponge cake layered with cream.And some...

The rule with a and an is that you use a when the word that follows it starts with a consonant sound, and you use an when the word that follows it starts with a vowel sound. You probably knew that given you used an correctly in your sentence, but I thought I'd mention that for others who may...

Hi, this is interesting, it reminds me of something I read in a book for improving pronunciation (the famous "American Accent Training"). The title of the paragraph is "Spoon or Sboon?" She (the author) say: "Say spoon. Now say sboon. Hear how they sound the same?" This is similar to your p/b...

To tell you the truth, I've never heard any foreigner (unless they learned English when they were very young, or had lived in an English speaking country for at least a decade, and had extensive, and personalized accent coaching) ever be able to pull off either an American or British accent....

I saw this paragraph from the Collins/Cobuild dictionary. P/S tell me what it means. On linking, when a word with a final "vowel" is followed by a word beginnig with a vowel, /w/ is /y/ is added between two vowels. ex. Do (w) I; Who (w); too (w) often

Felt I had to jump in here with my 2c. worth...... I am British, I was educated at an expensive school in Cheltenham in Gloucestershire so I tend to speak that way. Although I have lived in The States for almost 20 years, most of it in The Deep South, I am married to an Englishman and have lost...