There are phonetic and structural differences between Indian accents and American or British ones. The way Indians join words, the intonation patterns and weak/strong forms are all different. Phonetically Indians do not use long sounds or

From Dictionary.com Word History : Why do we pronounce one (wŭn) and once (wŭns) while other words derived from one, like only, alone, and atone, are pronounced with a long o? Over time, stressed vowels commonly become diphthongs, as when Latin

Ok, lol... then... I don't know if I understand your problem, but you are right, transcriptions in dictionaries are not accurate. But I don't know what to say, because it varies from dictionary to dictionary...I'll just give you a few

I quite understand why rhotic people would find the usual ... in the language where the combination "uh" represents this sound? Good point, "uh" doesn't really appear in traditional English words, does it? Searching on in

How many Americans are aware that the "long 'o'"of Received Pronunciation is different from the American "long 'o'"? Some American accents have a "long 'o'" that is similar to the "long

I stopped reading Katherine Kerr when the same mistake was perpetuated in her 3rd or 4th book: she gave 'thin' ... of an o - I like to call it a smiley - so %u means a smiley over the u. That diacritic is called a "breve" in

You have a dialect where, say, "bird" is (bV"Id) and ... they say (oIst@) or (V"Ist@), they replace it with (V"rst@). I see. I saw it differently. Using (V) for the vowel in "but," (@) for the vowel in

This I don't understand. What rule do you have in mind which might, when misapplied, lead to "erster" from "oyster"? You have a dialect where, say, "bird" is (bV"Id) and it starts to get ridiculed

(snip) I see it as a pronunciation spelling for those who pronounce the word as (drO:) and that includes rhotic AmE speakers in my experience (it may be a Midland phenomenon). MWCD11 includes (drO) as a dialectal pronunciation of

I have no luck in vowel discussions. All I can ... put in such a word. I'd call theirs a diphthong, Chances are yours is also a diphthong, though it may be a different diphthong from that which most BrE speakers ... seems to me to be