But in many British accents (and I think some American ... and so I don't think of myself as saying "theerter". So too for me. "Theater" and "idea" (each two syllables) are, I think, the only words where I have a

I think it might be an idea to have something on the website about "short" and "long" vowels, because there does seem to be some confusion about this. Long and short vowels (in the layman's sense of "long" and

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

I don't know from linguistics and phonetics (we're sending Young ... a vowel, however, it turns into a flap sound (*) In that case, "at the sight of" and "at the side of" become exactly the same pronunciation? Oh, no.