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I want to ask 2 questions about pronunciation first: 1) Do Americans say /use-d/ or /use-t/ in used to? 2) I saw Ann Cook wrote this in American Accent course: If the first consonant is voiced, the next one will be as well. If the first one is unvoiced, the second one will sound unvoiced, no...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Belly 36 days ago Difference between Consonants Accents Pronunciation American accents
Re: fair-haired

Yes, there are regional variations in American English. Do you know which accent is chosen by MW as the reference in the pronunciation keys. Is it General American?My problem is that, as I have mentioned before, they are indeed denoted differently in British English. The first one is a simple...

English Audio: Speech and Pronunciation by Pter 48 days ago Vowels Accents Consonants American English Pronunciation British English Spelling Diphthongs
Re: W is a vowel

There is no /h/ and /w/ in the words "shah" and "shaw". There are the letters <h> and <w>, but it's a mistake to think that these letters are somehow determining which vowels you have in these words.

ESL Linguistics Discussion Forum by Alienvoord 51 days ago Vowels Dialects Pronunciation Consonants
Re: W is a vowel

(a) I'm sure that in the word 'cow,' <w> is not functioning as a vowel. It is functioning as half a dipthong. (b) I really don't think that /w/ is a vowel-like sound at all... think of the difference in pronunciation between the word 'shah' and the name...

ESL Linguistics Discussion Forum by shaved 51 days ago Vowels Pronunciation Consonants
Re: Is it like d-oy-lee?

Hi Jim,Sorry, I forgot that a syllable has to contain at least one vowel.You are also correct about the sound of the d. I referred to different pronunciation tables and all the tables had that the consonant d would be pronounced as in card or day. But I still have some confusion about this. These...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Jackson6612 65 days ago Vowels Consonants Pronunciation
Re: Last name pronunciation

I opened my pronunciation dictionary and checked all the names starting with Mc. The second part of the 'rule' works more than 98%. In that dictionary, there are 136 surnames with a consonant following Mc. All of them have the stress on the second syllable. There are only two...

English Audio: Speech and Pronunciation by Pter 89 days ago Vowels Consonants Pronunciation

Re: The pronunciation of "a" in a sentence.

My two cents: Normally, it should be /ae/ sound. (in a sentence preceding a word which starts with a consonant) But it can be pronounced as /eı/ not /ej/ or / /. I was taught not to pronounce it as / / in formal speech , /eı/ is the strong version and / / is mostly used in daily speech.

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Re: How's and House - are they pronounced differently?

Anonymous wrote: Sadly I made a mistake in my previous posting: the correct phoneme symbol for the s's in 'houses' is indeed /z/, although of course English /z/ can be rather /s/-like. Hi,I am now confused even more than before. House is pronounced ?

English Audio: Speech and Pronunciation by Pter 167 days ago Consonants Pronunciation Plurals
Re: No Vowvels but using "AN" with it why ??? ...

Thank you Grammar Geek for your compliment, I am glad to be here with you sharing and learning. In fact I have also meant what you said. If the pronunciation starts with a consonant sound then it takes "a", as in "university". Besides, as in "hour", the pronunciation starts with a vowel, and it...

ESL Basic English Grammar Questions and Help by Madame_butterfly 173 days ago Grammar Vowels Consonants Universities Pronunciation
Linking two consonants/diphthongs ???

Dear allI am having some pronunciation problems.1. When saying some words like "Image Shack", do we make any linking between the /dz/ (last diphthong of "Image") and /sh/ (first diphthong of "Shack"), or do we just pronounce the two words "Image" and "Shack" separately? Likewise, do we make any...

English Audio: Speech and Pronunciation by Todinhkhoi 183 days ago Consonants Pronunciation Diphthongs