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

Its easy to read a newspaper but we've to keep in mind all those new words. Two years ago, when i was at school, I was looking for them in the dictionary and then I liked writing them down and trying to build up some sentences immediately

zhengquan schrieb: The Collins Cobuild English Dictionary pronounces the new way, and ... resource. Can the s-z evolution be attributed to Americanism invasion? My Longman's Dictionary of Contemporary English gives both pronunciations, but

I am sorry that I'm not writing to you in our beautiful mother tongue, but I want also other people to understand. Being an experienced student of English, I can tell you that what is common, is not always considered correct and the other way

I'm not sure about Europe in general, but in England ... however, more of a legal entity than a physical one. Not often at all - unless the "local church" was a monastery, Quite right; muddled posting on my part. (What I was trying

Any genre. Post it here by sundown tomorrow. Not really sure why I'm doing this. But the article did set this sequence in my mind and I had to write it out. Here it goes. Oh, and I do hope the formatting goes off well. It looks good on my

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

Rey filted: R H Draney falt: Another Volkswagen I saw had the license "PAZLEE"...I'll leave the justification for that to your imagination, except to say that it *was* justified..r Sorry, I can't figure out what

} R H Draney falt: } }> Rey filted: } }> > Germans pronounce 'Volkswagen' "VW" (fAO've:). } }> Saw that (as "FOWVAY") on the license plate of one once...there should be }> a law against putting