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Hi everyone, I hope you can help me. Can you tell me where I can find phonetics for noun the USA? Thank you in advance.
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Yeah, some variation is allowed, as it is called free variation in phonology. For instance, M-W lists 'æk sənt (n) as a British variant. You can see such variation in the following examples as well: ɪˈkɑn əmi and ɛˈkɑn əmi
ɪg 'zɑk li
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From the Cambridge Dictionary:
programme (PLAN) UK , US program Show phonetics noun a plan of activities to be done or things to be achieved: The school offers an exciting and varied programme of social events. The rail system is to put
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It is just convention. English spelling is not 100% consistent or regular. There have been many attempts at spelling reform, but none so far has gained any traction. There is no "academy" for English, as there can be for other languages.
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Mmm... I truly think that all this "languages' difficulties" deppend mainly about three things:
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Sometimes in reading we come across an unfamiliar word, a word that we have never heard pronounced. Native speakers and foreign learners alike, we may be tempted — rather than looking it up in a dictionary — not only to infer its meaning from the
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Being a student of French myself, I'd say English does not compare in terms of grammatical complexity or evevn gendered nouns. One obstacle in learning English is the fact that English is not phonetic, so the variations in pronunciation are
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It's not regional (except insofar as it seems to me to be more AmE than
BrE) and not sloppy, in my opinion -- unless you want to say also that
British speakers who say "choon" for "tune" are sloppy.
It is "glide absorption", and it is
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