Hi! Thank you for this interesting discussion and for your answer.Your opinion is important for me. First of all, my problem concerns teaching English as a second language. It's very bad that teachers instructing pupils how to pronounce /ʌ/

I am somewhat confused about the proper British pronunciation of ... is common and what is considered correct British? Claus Hi Claus In Received Pronunciation, the dialect of educated speakers of standard English, all three adverbs are stressed

(Email Removed) schrieb: Hello, This my first post to this group. I was asked a question by a friend of mine: Why is ... use one over the other. I don't personally think such a rule exists, but does anyone know the answer definitively? As you

Anonymous wrote: >> Only one exception, after (the attachment was from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary) after the sounds OK: /fd/ the sounds like /ft/ << Nope. There is no difference where it comes to the

Wow, what a lot of nonesense. Is American English simply lazy English with disregard for the fundamentals of the language, or is it a valid simplification of an overly complex and irregular language? Huh? What are you talking about? I was

Anonymous wrote: First of all, I would like to introduce myself as a native born American of native born American parents. I would like to comment in regard to my observation of foreign born people and their use of English. Of those people I

First of all, I would like to introduce myself as a native born American of native born American parents. I would like to comment in regard to my observation of foreign born people and their use of English. Of those people I have known from other

I believe that Shakespeare's rhymes are a good guide to ... connection between the two had already started to break down. Ahem. You haven't said which pronunciation to follow! I'm putting my money on "good", as being the one

Shakespeare happily rhymed "blood" with "good". How were those two words pronounced in his time? Do we know? I believe that Shakespeare's rhymes are a good guide to the fact that the pronunciation was the same or very

But it isn't. You are mishearing the /&I/ diphthong as ... an explanation and recorded sample, see: http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/units/ling210-901/transcription/broad transcri ption/broad transcription.html ( http://tinyurl.com/62n4y .) and