Hi, let me help you, I am Canadian. First of all, there is the correct way to say numbers, and the everyday/slang way. The proper way is " and" means a decimal. You NEVER use "and" unless denoting a decimal. How about

"You all" has the same semantics as "yous", right? I understand that the pronunciation is usually "yall". It probably depends upon how fast it is said. If I were speaking carefully and slowly, I would say "you

At 19:22:12 on Fri, 4 Mar 2005, HB (Email Removed) wrote in : Forgive my ignorance, but can anyone name a few English dialects? We always learned (translator school in Flanders) that English had many accents, not dialects, the only dialect we ever

Enrico C wrote on 21 Nov 2004: Enrico C wrote on 21 Nov 2004: Should have been ... absurd, you know please limit your posts to alt.absurd.replies. What do you find so absurd in my reply? That you compare using a talking dictionary or the phonetic

"'Plosive' is a relative term" means that there's no reason ... one time to another over a continuous range of values. It can't do that because if consonants were that loosely defined they'd be indistinguishable. It

Oh, I got it too, I was just trying to see if there was an interesting discussion here. Counting wars seems to be a tricky business. I would actually have guessed that there were probably fewer wars in that fifty-year stretch than usual. But for

}> }> I can half understand why we don't say Paree, but why shouldn't }> English speaking people be able to sort out the local pronunciations }> of proper nouns in English speaking countries? Why do all English }> people, it

Well we were kinda talking about the evolution of language - inparticular suggested spelling reform. You may have been, but my comments were in direct reply to Christopher's comment about Jerry's name. That's clear enough from reading

For that dialect, yes. Take me, for example. In my idiolect "piano" and "chianti" have two syllables. I have gathered that for the vast majority of English speakers these are three-syllable words that such speakers are

Huh? The Spanish "a" is noticeably different from both the ... some influencing in New York (Largest City in America) too? You are correct, sir, but Mexicans do not dominate their number, unlike the Latino communities in the West and