This debate really seems to be about two different things, spelling and pronunciation. The letter w (and y) is often used with other vowels (and sometimes alone as well) in spelling to reperesent a vowel sound . In the words hi and by , the letter

I have come to the sudden realization that I don't ... and I can't say (wVjr). -Aaron J. Dinkin Dr. Whom I pronounce them all in the same way. But I have heard others pronounce them differently, as you say. Fi-uhr, with a schwa. But no one

the My wife does - she learned English when she around 11, in LA. What's "LA" Los Angeles, Louisiana, or something else? My guess: Los Angeles. In that case I'd prefer to see "L.A.". Indeed. I originally wrote CA, but

Dylan Nicholson infrared: "Crèche", always in RobertE's UK sense, often retains its French grave accent and the vowel is closer to that of "air" rather than "mesh". In Aus. I've only ever heard it pronounced

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I think English pronunciation is probably the most difficult aspect ... in English that don't exist in Italian Spanish or French. Well, after mastering the sounds of Latvian and German, English has only the two versions of "th" to

Apropos of this (more or less), I was chatting yesterday ... her mellifluous RP vowels, that that made sense to her. That makes sense to me too, but it suggests that these Europeans are only familiar with Midwestern and Western American English