So too for me. "Theater" and "idea" (each two syllables) are, Ithink, the only words where I have a diphthong /i@/. Really? Did you mean to exclude words where that sound does not have primary stress (e.g. "area",

But in many British accents (and I think some American ... and so I don't think of myself as saying "theerter". So too for me. "Theater" and "idea" (each two syllables) are, I think, the only words where I have a

I would include standard Scottish English in the concept of "standard BrE", and they don't say "ACK-tuh". They also pronounce theatre as "THYATT-uh", for some reason best known to themselves. Could you give us

How about "ack-tuz"? No, the traditional British actor supposedly pronounces it as "ACK-taw" (rhymes with "jackdaw"), rather than the standard BrE "ACK-tuh". I would include standard Scottish English in the

I think it might be an idea to have something on the website about "short" and "long" vowels, because there does seem to be some confusion about this. Long and short vowels (in the layman's sense of "long" and

In that case, "at the sight of" and "at the side of" become exactly the same pronunciation? Oh, no. The and the are the same, as it were, but the vowels are different but ... isolation either just a length difference, or maybe

I don't know from linguistics and phonetics (we're sending Young ... a vowel, however, it turns into a flap sound (*) In that case, "at the sight of" and "at the side of" become exactly the same pronunciation? Oh, no.