Hey, It's not only foreigners who mispronounce words in English. Even here in Canada we hear people mispronouncing words. Of course, it's not often but it happens. A word that people here misuses all the time is the verb To lie, they mix

About american movies. You said: They are naturally uttered, but they are usually scripted (written beforehand) and unnaturally glib. I understood it that: films give good word's pronunciation, but there is grammar mistakes in dialogs. Is it

At 18:00:43 on Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Alan Pemberton (Email Removed) wrote in : I am intrigued by the expression 'fair does'. I have only ever heard it pronounced 'fair dooze', which doesn't make ... presume it must have been the

David schrieb: David schrieb: I find the last sentence incomprehensible, if ... could interpret for those of us who don't come Yorkshire. Well, even the trolling "blue sow" managed to pick out that I'd made a transposition error

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html#errors http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/than.html "When comparing one thing with another you may find that one is more appealing "than" another. "Than" is the word you want

I don't have any >> formal ESL training or certification, but I do tutor some >>foreign >> students in English ... >>> my speech. I'm not in the business of telling them I'm right and >>> they're

BTW, is the usage of American constructions/pronunciation in British English acceptable or is it treated as a mistake? American constructions and pronunciation are no problem in Britain. And if foreigners use these nobody will really notice,

Connected speech works just fine. Most people often elide some ... red if they are elided or spoken too quickly, though. OK. But that's elision. What about assimilation? You say that the analysis is at the phoneme level. How would this cope

For the diligent reader, here's some etymological lore about lobsters, crayfish, prawns, and other lexicographically challenging but delicious crustaceans. First, this from AHD3: Word History: The crayfish, also known as the crawfish, owes its

Sorry, Richard, I just don't get it. Not always the teacher's fault. Color to a blind man, or some such. One more good example of why usenet is the wrong venue for discussing phonetics. The British pronunciation is different in ...