By Pronunciation, Pronouns

Main Entry: 1ei·ther Pronunciation: \ˈē-thər also ˈī-\ The word can be pronounced either way, as shown above. Most Americans, I believe, pronounce the "i" way, while the British prefer the "ai" version.

Cool Breeze wrote:In Old English the pronoun was ic and it became reduced to i in the 12th century. People began to capitalize it in the mid-13th century to mark it clearly as a distinct word. In those days everything was written by hand and it was also quicker to draw just one vertical line...

Anonymous wrote:Ok, I see you didn't get it. I will repeat it again. Accents and intonation aren't the same things. You can emphasize something without speaking a perfect accent, let's say American one. Just rise a pitch of your voice at the right place. This doesn't depend on a concrete...

Forbes wrote: Cool Breeze wrote:Fortunately English is structurally so simple... ?Hi ForbesIn the days of Old English the grammar of the language was more complicated than it is today: nouns had three genders, and there were even strong masculines as there are in modern German, 's' wasn't the...

Saska wrote: Guest wrote:Why many foreign speakers have such problems with the English language? I mean, I came to the U.S. about two years ago, and in the beginning I've had problems with the language (probably just like eveybody else), but what makes English such a difficult language to...

Hi Yuki,thank you for your opinion. L.Yuki wrote:Hmm I normally heard people say how are you as well. Though, my native American friend told me it doesn't really matter how you stress it. Just depends on the situation, you can even stress any word you want >_> if it is needed. I asked a...

I don't think there is a hard and fast rule here. However: If you have a two syllable word that ends with an 'a', it's typical that the vowel in the first is short. Like 'dada', 'feta', etc. This is not a rule so much as a pattern that should be observed. Following it, the 'da' in 'data' should...

Francesca wrote:For example: the word 'plus' is Latin, so it must be pronounced as 'pl-oo-s', at least in Italy! Most people pronounce it in the English way, because they really think it's an English word or simply that the English pronounciation is better Hi FrancescaMost interesting! As I am...

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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 the sine qua non of authentic American...