If you utter a fully released /d/ in "handbag" (hand-bag) you're using a spelling pronunciation, That is, of course, baloney. Handsaw, handbook, handgun, hand-carved, hand-reared, handguard, handbell, hand-etc...handbag. A hambag

Kooyeen wrote: And I'm 100% sure that if I know it, I definitely don't know it can be spelled two ways. Kooyeen, you have (at least) one of these too! I guess we should focus on that. We said it's not a difference between BrE and AmE, so not

Yankee wrote: Kooyeen, you should be able to get this one. I'm 100% sure you've seen the word recently. And I'm 100% sure that if I know it, I definitely don't know it can be spelled two ways. I guess we should focus on that. We said it's not

Hwat for what is the original pronunciation and was the only form used in Middle English. In Modern English, many dialects lost the wine-whine distinction, and began pronouncing words spelled "wh" as simply "w", rather thn "hw". The original,

Ricky, The English speaker hears the difference between 'b' and 'p' as the difference between a voiced and an unvoiced consonant. The Chinese speaker hears the difference between 'b' and 'p' as the difference between an unaspirated and an

Don Myers wrote on 20 Nov 2004: Teachers tell students to practice reading. Students then run across many words they've never heard pronounced. As they see the ... quickly pick out the word in a list be helpful even though there is no meaning

} At the AUE site, there's a page headed "Pronunciation of } newsgroup contributors' names". The URL is } http://www.alt-usage-english.org/audio gallery/index.html } } When you click on "WAV" or "MP3" by my

A certain AUE contributor has deluded himself into thinking there's a substantial difference between my vowels in "call" and "Bob" in that remark. In general I agree; I think all of your cot/caught vowels sound like

At the AUE site, there's a page headed "Pronunciation of newsgroup contributors' names". The URL is http://www.alt-usage-english.org/audio gallery/index.html When you click on "WAV" or "MP3" by my name, you

LEE Sau Dan (Email Removed) wrote on 02 Jan 2004: CyberCypher> True, but I do and I'm a native English-speaker. I didn't know that! And I want other readers of ... the sounds by the mouth are quite the same Mouth? You don't just use