Hi, and welcome to Englishforums. I will move this thread to the section about pronunciation after you reply, OK? Because here we just post about grammar issues. Anyway, how sounds are produced depends on the dialect you are considering... there

Bert Vaux: Einde O'Callaghan: I wonder how many cities there are where Bert is going to get meaningful data distinguishing dialects of different parts of the city. Asking for a postal code seems way too specific. I had problems with postcodes

I'm no Professor 'Iggens, but I have a lifelong interest in, and sensitivity for local dialect pronunciations. I'm particularly fascinated with the persistence of Elizabethan dialectic pronunciations that have been documented in

it 'Aww'", Not so. There are speakers of standard dialects of English, including me (I was raised in Central Illinois and have lived in Minneapolis for 30 years), who pronounce "cot" identically to "caught" and

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",

Maelin expostulated: I am hoping to find a website that will explain ... Does anyone know of such a site or something similar? Do you mean difference in meaning, or difference in pronunciation? If the latter then you are on a hiding to nothing;

Maelin expostulated: I am hoping to find a website that will explain to those self-proclaimed net-lingo-savvy people, among other things, the difference ... possible. Perhaps some insultingly simple diagrams would be good too. Does anyone know of

Once again, it sounds too much like "you". AND, while ... and "hir" as are used in many online fora. Kent Well, there are many dialects and manners of pronunciation, but nobody suggests to ban the word "air" because

I remember Bob Lieblich has once posted about the pronunciation of his family name, in which he says that "ch" ... if there would be an ASCII IPA list of how-to-pronounce-AUE-regulars-names (or wav.files of their names) somewhere in the

Because sometimes phonetic spelling resembles eye dialect. Take the example ... in print, they might very well pronounce it like "onset." Why would this be any less insulting than any other use of phonetic spelling might be. Isn't