Generally speaking, we do not double consonants in English pronunciation. Little, better, lesser, assume, grammar, middle, fellow, terrific, copper - all these words are written with a double consonant, but we pronounce them as if they were only

No, Mr Wordy-- it is pronounced 'four double-yu dee' and is a common term for the vehicle. In your parlance, perhaps. I am not aware that this pronunciation is in general use in conversational British English. The written

Well, for a spanish speaking person, there's almost no difference between "v" and "b" and itos quite difficult to imagine that we gotta pronounce "v" and "b" together to get the sound right? Is there any

Can you imagine the poker situation as well? Or would it always be "What do you have?" in that context for you? In formal BrE it would be "What do you have?". In conversational BrE it would very often be

You still haven't answered the question directly. Are you talking about the shop where you can buy clothes? The shop with the name "The Gap"? I assume you know that you have to capitalize it to avoid confusion with the ordinary word

What exactly is missing before 'like'? I thought the missing words were following 'only'??? It is clear that pronunciation and spelling of the surname do not follow the same pattern, his words could be: ..., (which is pronounced)

Hi Ryusuke san, Actually, I don't like to pay lip-service to somebody . In vietnam, specially the people live in the northern area, they often use lip-service. I live at Southern area where we have a blunt way of speaking but I really like

I'm a computer science engineering student currently in 3rd Year. I'm a tech savvy and love to work on computer. But I'm a bit weak in pronunciation and cannot speak English much fluently. I hope this forum will help me in improving my

on dictionary.com and i heard the pronunciation is kwes-chuhn. but when i heard people pronounce that like kwe shuhn. Are you sure? I have heard the mispronunciation kwesh - chun fairly often, but I can't recall hearing kwe - shuhn. Maybe they

Hello. Would you please give an example of a sentence where you would have to transition from S to F? Or do you mean you are having difficulty saying words like "tran sf orm" and "tran sf er"? If the former, then the