hmmm actually sometimes this -ize or -ise confused me damn alot!! like a confusion Of apologISE or apologIZE !!!anybody got a tip ?? If I may add something to this disccusion. I have frequently read articles written by Britons who use -ize, just

Hi,Grammar Geek! Thanks for the help. Sorry, but in spite of writing flour I wrote floor . I heard the pronunciation of flower and flour at the site www.yourdictionary.com Interesting to notice that these words have different phonetic

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

Is this what you're after? Maybe be too TEFL-ey/basic for your audience (sorry if you've thought of these already) - clean up our board: after a particularly messy lesson, work with students to organise the board into a set of clear notes

I read Lynn Truss' (or less common now, Truss's) book ... on syllable/phonetics, but I'd also think that dictionaries may vary. I'm not sure whether the reported appearances of "leg-end" and "the-rapist" in

There are, to my mind, two places where it could be hyphenated: "res-pect-ively". Sorry I meant to type: "re-spect-ively". I read Lynn Truss' (or less common now, Truss's) book last year, the best seller with the Panda

What I'm Sorry, I don't speak phonetic. (Yeah, yeah, I know, I know). Stumped by symbols? Hopeless at hieroglyphs? When ASCII IPA let's you down, new, improved Rhyme-o-Matic Classic (TM) never fails! (Mike, the difference is just that

What I'm /hjul@t 'p&kRd/ or /eItS pi/. Sorry, I don't speak phonetic. (Yeah, yeah, I know, I know). Stumped by symbols? Hopeless at hieroglyphs? When ASCII IPA let's you down, new, improved Rhyme-o-Matic Classic (TM) never

'Hewlett PACK ard' though is what I've always assumed to ... the American company name?"I'm guessing something like 'Hewlett Pack'rd' ? /hjul@t 'p&kRd/ or /eItS pi/. Sorry, I don't speak phonetic.

If you think about the meanings of "allophone" and "phoneme," you'll realize this is an impossible request. What "others"? Hmm, sorry if my request was unclear. By "others," I meant what are the possible