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

Unfortunately students who take IELTS exhibit the same poor speech skills, and that already includes a speaking test (for which I'm an examiner). I gather that pronunciation is one of the criteria for marking and assessment...

This adoption of Y for thorn then led back into ... in pre-letterpress days except by mistake; nothing deliberate about it.) This is very interesting stuff. I understand that one of the reasons for English being so un-phonetic is that the ... its

Agreed, if such coursebooks claim to be representing American pronunciation. They are incorrect even when representing RP. Apparently length is indeed an inherent part of vowel phonemes in several important British dialects, where /i/ ~ (i:) is in

I know dialects and idiolects differ on this pernt, but in my dialect "gram" and "Graham" and "graham" and, I ... I'm talking from, what with the vowel shift and all. A Southern US speaker would probably have even

I've followed this thread with some amazement at how 'thing' ... the 'thing' in 'another thing coming' supposed to represent? Retribution? This issue was pretty much beaten to a pulp in AUE a couple of years back. So

That's a spelling mistake, not a grammar mistake. It's a grammatical error in the same way that "didn't wanted to" is a grammatical error. It would be the same if "didn't wanted to" was pronounced the same as

Perceiving "used to" to be a modal verb leads ... used to" and "I use to" in a past sense. That's a spelling mistake, not a grammar mistake. It's a grammatical error in the same way that "didn't wanted

How do I seem to have fallen into that trap? Clearly, they would be effectively two different words. Your use of "would be" instead of "are" reveals that you evidently still don't understand the true meanings of "used

I find odd that, knowing that in English the present ... of Latin, our two words infinitive should not be split". When, if ever, did you study linguistics? Yesterday, as almost everyday. If you mean more formal studying, two months ago I