I was watching an episode of "7th Heaven" a minute ago, and came across pronunciation that I couldn't figure out. The story was up to the point like this: (episode title: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil) Annie and Matt, her

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

On 25 Nov 2003, Bob Martin wrote -snip- In other words, do you adopt a strongly rhotic pronunciation ... and by your yardstick other versions must therefore be "incorrect". Harvey, considering someone to be an "insufferably precious

} 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

Where I come from, good old England (north), these equalities ... is hard for me to realise it. Thanks a lot! This is a case where ASCII IPA might prove useful: See http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Evan Kirshenbaum/IPA/ and

X-No-Archive: yes The present international standard (Alfa Bravo Charlie Echo Foxtrot) was compiled approx.1955 on behalf of NATO and was designed to be as clear as possible over noisy or weak radios apparently successfully because international

There was a show on television last night with Mary Tyler Moore and Valerie Harper in their old roles as ... in Kansas think NY Jews talk like". If it was an accurate accent, NY Jews should be muffled at birth. Sorry, Coop, but I wasn't