Hello all. I want to select for my stories for children site a voice narrator. The problem is that I do not have such an english level to choose the best person if more than one speak very fluently What should I check for to make sure I can

His sentence is awkward and not quite correct. I would have said: "The past ten years have seen a big rise in small businesses." And yes, my current dictionary has the pronunciation of "near" as "nir."

Hello, Vladimir, this combination has not yet been codified in major pronunciation dictionaries, perhaps due to the narrowness of its use outside technical areas; therefore, we should resort to analogy. Thus, acronyms of a similar type

a unique situation is correct. You have to go by the pronunciation, not by the spelling. yoo-neek is the pronunciation of unique . CJ

According to Wikipedia, Scottish Gaelic is not English, so...

Thank you, Grammar Geek! Is there a rule that you know of to use for guidance? As a native English speaker one does not always know what the rules are but is there one in this case that I can quote to the teacher?

Thanks! This is great forum. I get answers to my questions quickly! And how about the pronunciation of Ms?

Hi Louise, and welcome to English Forums. You are 100% right. Girls' sounds like girl's which sounds like girls, which sounds like "girlz" -- one syllable. He deserves his 10.

My 12 year old son, a native English speaker, goes to school in Spain where we have lived since he was four. He has just come back from school with a 9 out of 10 in an English exam. He was marked down on the oral exam for pronouncing ¨girls´¨

How do you pronounce "Hugh" as in "Hugh Jackman " and "Hathway" as in "Anne Hathway " ?