3. The questions are designed to be relevant to speakers of English worldwide, not just in the United States. Designed badly, then, in my view. Most of the questions seem to relate to purely American linguistic oddities. I do ... Hello,

True. But they share at least one thing in common: they're distinct. And I think they share other things in common too. For example, "ah" is never rounded; "ah" is never to the back of "aw". "Ideal" by

If you say that to me, you say nothing. As a description of a sound, "aw" has no useful meaning. But I think it does have some useful meaning to the community of CINC AmE speakers. I think if you were CINC you'd understand. I doubt

If I want you to use the vowel of your ... order to accomplish that? What would you suggest I write? Before I made a suggestion, I would want to be persuaded that there was some good reason for you to want me to use a vowel when you don't know

In classical Latin pronunciation as understood today, "C" would be ... if that was a long vowel and the otherwise. I didn't think the Romans did stress. I thought (in poetry at least) it was all to do with long and short vowels -

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It's been said that Alastair Cooke sounded English to Americans ... mid-Atlantic. Angela Lansbury, I gather, is also a good example. No, I think there's a difference between what sounds to an American like an "English" accent

Not at all (though that may be the use of ... in "cut" in the most conventionally standard varieties of English. Well, I wasn't being entirely serious. But I'm sure I've read something that implied that the 19th century RP

I think (V) - as it's conventionally used, not as ... mean the latter here to correspond to IPA "turned a". Isn't the conventional use of (V) just to describe whatever vowel sound occurs in "cut" in the variety of

(begin quoted post)> The pronunciation of these words with an ... and more sensible, spelling for /hw/. (end quoted post) Thank you CJ. So it's the meddling of those cheese-eating surrender monkeys we've to thank. Is it too late to put