I don't know of a webpage that drills these ideas, but here is some written material that may help. There are, in American English, five types of verb with regard to the pronunciation of the regular past tense. (The spelling rules are

>> PLAY - I always say /plei/, but here you can hear /plɛi/ > BEAR - I always say /ber/, but here you can hear /bɛr/ << According to Wikipedia, before /r\/, in American English " is one of tense-lax neutralization, where the

Kooyeen, there is something that you should know. While it is true that North American English has tense-lax neutralization before /r\/, thus and are heard as the same, I would say that most speakers of General American English, use a vowel closer

I'm not familiar with MLB. In American English it is very common to omit the "t" when it follows a stressed syllable ending in "n" and precedes an unstressed syllable beginning with a vowel. "winter" and "winner" are indistinguishable. The

I don't know how many schwas there are when those of all languages are considered. In my opinion there are five in my own American English. IPA does not transcribe sounds quite so narrowly, as far as I know, so IPA would have only two symbols

Anonymous, I think Couchpotato is referring to duration when he says "long". In addition to taking stress, the "ir" in "bird" actually lasts longer than the "er" in "winner". In American English, these are the only differences. (In

... would you please tell me how would you pronounce "ship" ? would it be like " shape" The vowel sound in "ship" is completely different in American English from the vowel sound in "shape". __________ I'm not aware of any difference in

In American English, "used to" and "use to" (in both the "s" being pronounced /s/ and in the former expression ... did not use to play on that team. Didn' t she use to work for your company? (end quote) No wonder

In American English, "used to" and "use to" (in both the "s" being pronounced /s/ and in the former expression having the "d" silent) are both standard *under the appropriate circumstances.* From *The

In the recent discussion of the verb "use", meaning "to be accustomed", its use in the infinitive and the simple past tense were mentioned, but I don't recall that anyone mentioned its use in the past perfect tense. An