From the Cambridge Dictionary: programme (PLAN) UK , US program Show phonetics noun a plan of activities to be done or things to be achieved: The school offers an exciting and varied programme of social events. The rail system is to put

I remember at school there was a combined volume of "Billy Liar" and "The Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner" ubiquitous to the "English Rooms". I thought the latter to be the better story, better written; but

As per phonetics theory, I've been told one should use ... "an university" ? Are these instances of incorrect usage? Paul. A lot of people write 'an hotel', which always surprises me. Do they say it without the 'h'? I

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 /

I don't hate America, Charles, and I certainly don't hate Americans. What I hate is being forced to do things in a certain way here. There's a big difference. I find this thread fascinating and I can see Chris's points. I think

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I think (V) - as it's conventionally used, not as ... mean the latter here to correspond to IPA "turned a". Isn't the conventional use of (V) just to describe whatever vowel sound occurs in "cut" in the variety of

The maximum onsets principle isn't universally accepted. See http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/syllabif.htm which ... /n/ goes in the third syllable because of stress.) Jonathan Who is Wells? Professor of phonetics at University College

"Peter T. Daniels" (Email Removed) schrieb im Newsbeitrag Mmm, OK, I come from an ELT rather than an ... having been using it all evening, what does 'marked' mean? It comes from early structuralism (Jakobson, Prague School, and

I think it might be an idea to have something on the website about "short" and "long" vowels, because there does seem to be some confusion about this. Long and short vowels (in the layman's sense of "long" and