hmmm actually sometimes this -ize or -ise confused me damn alot!! like a confusion Of apologISE or apologIZE !!!anybody got a tip ?? If I may add something to this disccusion. I have frequently read articles written by Britons who use -ize, just

Read the article found in the following site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_alphabet . The article is mainly talking about British English Alphabet. The pronunciation is in the form of phonetic symbols. When they are talking about other

I agree. It actually really vexes me when people use "a" in front of an acronym. Even though the previous post has been up for quite some time, maybe someone will run across this and find it helpful. Here is my reasoning: So, yes, we all

Good day! Hi there! i just would like to know if Lingustics can be used as a tool for everyday's conversations, public speaking and many more; how does it benefit us and what are its effects to us. Thankyou. I just would like to sahre

In article But the collapsed diphthong - in which a diphthong is formed to provide minimal phonetic cues to a longer word ... reliable acculturated BBC anchor or links man would be expected to know off pat and deliver without missing a beat. So

However, I think we can say or write "a hour". Actually I've seen both "an hour" and "a hour". Does it mean that phonetics play an important role, sometimes overlaping spelling? Anyway, my Oxford advanced

As per phonetics theory, I've been told one should use the indefinite article "a" before words beginning with a consonant and "an" before words beginning with a vowel or a diphthong. And the sound "y" ( or / j /

Its ' a year '. Articles ''a'' and ''an'' depend on the phonetics rather than the spelling. We say: An umbrella but a university.

Summary The current generation of language processing systems is based on linguistically motivated competence models of natural languages. The problems encountered with these systems suggest the need for performance-models of language