My daughter told me that some of her friends pronounce "water" as "wudder"; I can't remember which, or where they're from, though. They might be from Baltimore, where I first encountered that pronunciation. I atill have

friends, I presume "passkey" is usually just pronounced "pass key". ... how Isay "ASCII", so I wouldn't say that they rhyme. "Pass key" would be pronounced with equal stress on each word,

Hi, Being a non native speaker, I'd like to know how native English read to learn, in particular how to deal with English spelling (also, how do they learn to write) If you're interested in the whole sorry history of educational fads

I'm pretty sure that in the U.S. and southern England ... accept that my CIC intuitions about this may be wrong. I think they are, for southern England; can't speak for the US. "laurel" for me rhymes with "sorrel" which

Anymore, if you call customer support for help with computer problems, you have a good chance of being put through to a helper in India. This gives you an opportunity to sample the oddities of Indian English. In my recent experience, two