Can you just correct some simple sentences for me. I wonder if them are right or not. 1. I believe that this trait of mine would help me to be a good teacher. 2. A translator whom I look up to said a language learner who consistently

I don't necessarily agree with this. "Dictionaries describe the most *usual* pronunciation"?? What does "most usual" mean? The densest and ... There are a great many people in the South that pronounce "help" as

Indeed, that's what we CINCs have been saying all along: your "ah" sounds like "aw" to us. If you say that to me, you say nothing. As a description of a sound, "aw" has no useful meaning. It seems pretty clear to

(in a discussion in which the famous "oi"-"er" relationship was mentioned) The thing to remember in all those oi/er discussions is that *it's not a rhotic R*. This (not that) has been said more than once before, but it

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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

"Jonathan" is different. Oh. I didn't know that. Well then, to be more specific: "John" and "Jonathan" both come from Hebrew names that attribute some positive attribute to God, and begin with the element

When I try to pronounce (IN), (&N), or {EN), it seems difficult and unnatural. But (A:N) (as in "wrong") and (VN) (as in "hung") are no problem. I find (&N) unnatural to pronounce as well, but no more so than I find

I've always wondered why English dictionaries use IPA instead of the idiosyncratic systems they force their users to decipher tradition, probably. IPA, whatever the variant, makes much more sense, especially to people who have learned other

When half a dozen people, not including me, have already explained what's going on, and you continue to repeat your original mistake, you have earned some exasperation. You are again reifying "phonetic symbols" in a symbolization ...