Dear moderators, Sorry that I posted it in the wrong forum. Would you please help to move it back to "Speech and Pronunciation"? Thanks.

. -- Have you got / Do you have a spare pen, Peter? -- Yeah! -- C'n I borrow it, please? -- Sure! Here . -- And a ruler? -- Here you are. -- You finished? -- Yeah. -- C'n I have them back, then? -- OK , there you are. -- Bless you ! --

I don't think a word can be a verb and ... the second example to make the sense come out right. Sorry, I remain unconvinced by your particular example. Didn't this table used to be painted? Yes, it used to be ... and vice-versa. That's

^ (= How?) Is this difference in the pronunciation to be expected? For ... then would he be able to predict the other's form? *Some* difference in pronunciation is to be expected. But which ones is completely unpredictable. While there is

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

one "Ms." would It turns out that the British recognize ... for "Ms" the pronunciations /mIz/ and /m@s/, that is, "muss." Sorry for not snipping, but I thought the above was all relevant. I find your findings

You are correct, sir. BTW, in Goodfellas Joe ... one known to New York speakers. Ross Howard take note. Ross Howard is too busy flicking furrowed-browed through his *Goodfellas* screenplay to try and find where the hell Secaucus was even mentioned

Mike Stevens > My late grandmother (born in the 19th century) used to ... speech of London and the hyperlect of the aristocratic classes. Why was that? I don't really know, but I have half a memory of reading somewhere that both ends of the

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