By Phonetics, British English

Hi, It has been my experience that students become lost when consulting dictionaries with regard to phonetic symbols as many times each one uses different phonetic symbols. This has caused much grief and I just tell my online students to stay away from it and try to spell the pronunciation out...

and an ignorant American would look at British and pronounce practise (Br. spelling) like practize.... Highly unlikely.Americans on the other hand, have been butchering it for centuries and should not be consulted when learning this language. It is, after all, English and not American.Rubbish. ...

Marvin A. wrote:>> Let me just add that, in standard British English, the pronunciation of both words is . <<I believe that in many dictionaries, the symbol <ɘ> can represent both IPA /ʌ/ and /ɘ/, because dictionaries tend to use different phonetic alphabets.Which makes it all...

>> Let me just add that, in standard British English, the pronunciation of both words is . <<I believe that in many dictionaries, the symbol <ɘ> can represent both IPA /ʌ/ and /ɘ/, because dictionaries tend to use different phonetic alphabets.

Hi, yes, there are books that deal with stress, intonation, and pronunciation. I've read "American Accent Training" by Ann Cook. There's really a lot of stuff in that book (and on the 5 CDs). I haven't tried any other books anyway, so I can only tell you about that one. It treats American...

Richard24545730 wrote:It had been a hot summer and I was expected a bumper crop...Should be "I was expecting"?

I’m a native British speaker. I would tend to transcribe the same vowel in ‘train’ and ‘danger’ – !

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