I won't argue with you, of course you're right, you're a native Italian! You can argue! After all, Italian has many variants and I can speak only for mine. After doing some search on the internet, I've found this dictionary where

Excuse me, I put 'Approaching' instead of 'Seizing'. Hi Ariel, Why don't you try the Cambridge Dictionary online? Just click in "show phonetics". :-) http://dictionary.cambridge.org/ Irma. BTW Mexican. Thanks, I am

I have encountered the pronunciation "Walla!" for "Voilà!" before, andfound it to be puzzling. Now, reading this thread, the light ... "(pneumatic) tire" ) and the /sts/ combination at the beginning of the Esperanto

So too for me. "Theater" and "idea" (each two syllables) are, Ithink, the only words where I have a diphthong /i@/. Really? Did you mean to exclude words where that sound does not have primary stress (e.g. "area",

That's neutralization to an archiphoneme, rather than allophony, but whyever would you use (S) in "Asia"? What other consonants do you devoice between vowels? "Pronunciation: 'A-zh&, -sh&" so they are presumably

"Molly Mockford" (Email Removed) a écrit dans le message de : Why is it a university, but an umbilical cord? Because of the pronunciation, not the spelling. University is pronounced Yooniversity (i.e. a consonant-sound rather than a

Is there a handy historical explanation for the spelling (wh) not matching the pronunciation (hw)? One of the links on the website I mentioned touches on this question. It can be found at:

In article I pronounce it with the first letter silent, which I did when I typed the line, too. "An ear"? Please don't. It's always been a consonant, and the cognates have a consonant in most Indo-European languages. (I rarely

I pronounce it with the first letter silent, which I did when I typed the line, too. "An ear"? Please don't. It's always been a consonant, and the cognates have a consonant in most Indo-European languages. (I rarely get a chance

In that case, "at the sight of" and "at the side of" become exactly the same pronunciation? Oh, no. The and the are the same, as it were, but the vowels are different but ... isolation either just a length difference, or maybe