I'm a high school junior, so i'll be talking from classroom experiences.  I'm in regular english and have completed 3 years of spanish. No English is not a phonetic language.  Languages like Italian and Spanish have only one way of

I apologise if this is the wrong place to post this, as I'm a native speaker of English, however, I'm really not sure where to look regarding this question. I'm from Australia, and I speak with the General Australian accent, with

It's in Northern Italy. The most important city is Milan. So basically you're, like, Bavarian with an Italian accent. Why Bavarian? Sorry, I must be temporarily dense. Bye, FB Io ho deciso di rifiutarmi di vederlo: Ettore con la faccia di

I wonder whether he's a BrE, say, who is hearing ... way that might sound like "simmy" or "simm-eye" to PINPs. I wonder if there are any speakers of a variety of BrE who has created an initialism for the phenom ... vowel

I imagine the way the Romans said "Boadicea" was very ... fact, very close to "Boudicca" apart from the extra vowel. In classical Latin pronunciation as understood today, "C" would be a K sound, not a G sound as

Okay, let's try. When most Brits say "near to the ... "yatter" with a "th" tacked on the front (Tj&t@). Whereas some Scots can't handle consecutive vowels, and say 'theeter'. I love Eddie Mair this side

Larry G infrared: I was watching "the Croc Hunter" the other day and ... care to tackle an IPA, or other, representationof that one? I see you're not getting any responses from Australians in this thread. The problem is that our own

representation learnt though guide I your Note to Janet: I'm not American - I'm from northern England (Sheffield). Dear Jonathan, Sorry about that. I suppose it's a mistake to suppose that everyone's American. Janet Australia,

} On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 19:27:43 -0500, R F } } ( . . . ) } }> I think I've heard something that might be related in certain Midland }> accents, but not necessarily for /I/ before /N/. I know one }> (Midland-region) Hoosier who says

} How can one render in writing the difference in the English and } American English? Brother Martin has kindly answered the question with respect to posting in alt.usage.english, but I'm suspecting that we're talking about someone