That doesn't mean you have to post 18 times. You shuda combined them into a single post. Since we're preaching up proper English here, please, don't post "kind-of-chat" language here. I don't belong to the set

The "l" of "bell" when it ends a word is kind of a "half l" when compared to the initial "l" in "love" which allows the "l" voicing to be completed by going to a vowel. Yet the

These are OK: You want to let me help you?-- Very casual. Do you want to let me help you? Do not use ' wanna' (or gonna, coulda, woulda . etc) in ANY written English unless you are actually transcribing speech (i.e. writing dialogue). It is not

Language is not static; it changes all the time. In fact, the t-sound used to be correct. Quote: "Often was pronounced with a t-sound until the 17th century, when a pronunciation without the /t/ came to predominate in the speech of the

I have been taking advantage of another text reader to improve English pronunciation and listeing, I installed panopreter which is a free text-to-speech software, it reads with default Microsoft voices on Windows, I run it on Windows Vista, so I

Phonics shows letter-sound correspondence patterns that exist in traditional spelling (what I call tradspel). It looks at letters and letter strings (letters in sequence) and shows how sounds are commonly spelled by them. Phonics is good for

I was researching the pattern of silent letters and was about to post a question on this forum when I found this site: http://www.eleaston.com/pr/sl-pat-pb.html After going through the list, I was surprised that there are so many. I pronounce

Hello! I am designing an informative poster to present my research paper. Please correct the text I am planing to display on the poster. Thanks ever so much! (It might be a pretty interesting read ) Poster Text: The Way to A Phenomenal Memory -

Ttate: Welcome to the forums. This is a very interesting subject! Languages do have a formal grammar, but also there are many times when the rules are broken by native speakers in actual practice. Sometimes "formal speech," although

Hi (and welcome to Englishforums Smile), As I know, in modern English the vowel is no more pronounced as... ouch! The vowel must always be pronounced the same, since it's an IPA symbol that describe a sound. IPA symbols don't change, they