I was watching an episode of "7th Heaven" a minute ago, and came across pronunciation that I couldn't figure out. The story was up to the point like this: (episode title: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil) Annie and Matt, her

I'm a high school junior, so i'll be talking from classroom experiences.  I'm in regular english and have completed 3 years of spanish. No English is not a phonetic language.  Languages like Italian and Spanish have only one way of

My daughter told me that some of her friends pronounce "water" as "wudder"; I can't remember which, or where they're from, though. They might be from Baltimore, where I first encountered that pronunciation. I atill have

friends, I presume "passkey" is usually just pronounced "pass key". ... how Isay "ASCII", so I wouldn't say that they rhyme. "Pass key" would be pronounced with equal stress on each word,

Hi, Being a non native speaker, I'd like to know how native English read to learn, in particular how to deal with English spelling (also, how do they learn to write) If you're interested in the whole sorry history of educational fads

On 25 Nov 2003, Bob Martin wrote -snip- In other words, do you adopt a strongly rhotic pronunciation ... and by your yardstick other versions must therefore be "incorrect". Harvey, considering someone to be an "insufferably precious

I'm pretty sure that in the U.S. and southern England ... accept that my CIC intuitions about this may be wrong. I think they are, for southern England; can't speak for the US. "laurel" for me rhymes with "sorrel" which

} How can one render in writing the difference in the English and } American English? Brother Martin has kindly answered the question with respect to posting in alt.usage.english, but I'm suspecting that we're talking about someone

Where I come from, good old England (north), these equalities ... is hard for me to realise it. Thanks a lot! This is a case where ASCII IPA might prove useful: See http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Evan Kirshenbaum/IPA/ and

X-No-Archive: yes The present international standard (Alfa Bravo Charlie Echo Foxtrot) was compiled approx.1955 on behalf of NATO and was designed to be as clear as possible over noisy or weak radios apparently successfully because international