Sometimes, in spoken english, I'm not able to distinguish whether it's "I'd have to" or "I have to". I once was not able to hear the difference at all, but with time I learned to figure it out from the context, and

Thank you for replying, Mister Micawber. There isn't a written context for this one but my question arose from another post in the speech and pronunciation section where I was looking for a way to refer to 'the mid-2000s', just as we

It's a joke related to the Royal "We" (traditionally, the monarch never says "I", always "We") But when do they do so? I've listened to some recordings of speeches delivered by the Queen and she always ... the

You mean, pronounced "usedta" and "hasta"? No, for "used to", I mean "useta" with the /d/ assimilated to /t/ (or, at least, to a voiceless (d), which isn't quite the same thing).. Good point, but

Aaron J. Dinkin : I have come to the sudden realization that I don't ... I usually have before voiceless codas, as in "height" (hVjt). I don't know if it's struck others, but to me this is precisely one of the sounds where I

It seems pretty clear to me that Richard means that ... would prefer to spell as "aw" rather than as "ah". Why he would want to spell it "aw" passes understanding, since he has also implied that "aw" may be

Such is the characteristic of the language. In Chinese, every ... and just slip from word to word, wich sounds funny. Which suggests a technique I have mentioned previously in this newsgroup, and which several people seemed to think was a ... can

( . . . ) My ears can't detect any difference between the vowels of Bob's "call" and "Bob". I don't (yet) have formant-analysis software on my computer, so without knowing whether the vowels actually are objectively

As long as the speech of the speaker in question ... "wuz" and "lissen," we're talking about anotherexample of phonetic spelling. Whoa. "Was" is pronounced by me and presumably by you like "wuz", but