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syllable Segment of speech usually consisting of a vowel with or without accompanying consonant sounds (e.g., a , I , out , too , cap , snap , check ). A syllabic consonant, like the final n sound in button and widen , also constitutes a syllable.

Enrico C wrote on 21 Nov 2004: One can always record one's own speech and compare it with a native speaker's rendition. On the contrary, I think one can improve a lot if others listen to him/her attentively and make him/her notice ...

Enrico C wrote on 21 Nov 2004: Enrico C wrote on 21 Nov 2004: Should have been ... absurd, you know please limit your posts to alt.absurd.replies. What do you find so absurd in my reply? That you compare using a talking dictionary or the phonetic

Enrico C wrote on 21 Nov 2004: Anyone with a dictionary that either providesShould have been "provides ... to acquire the correct pronunciation without needing a teacher's help. That could be said for virtually anything: you can find the

"'Plosive' is a relative term" means that there's no reason ... one time to another over a continuous range of values. It can't do that because if consonants were that loosely defined they'd be indistinguishable. It

Areff wrote on 28 Aug 2004: Johnny Carson (the Tonight Show) says pooberty. Jarred me a ... do with the pronunciation, to carry through with your theory. Is Nebraska the Midwest? Not really. It's more like the Great Plains. I know someone from

Also: lues (1-syl, sifts with a sieve (OED); 2-syl, pestilence, syphilis) ewe {female sheep; African language} These are capitonyms; in one case the initial must be upper-case, in the other, it needn't. If this is accepted, how about quiche

Tony Cooper wrote on 31 May 2004: I would not use it that way. And because you would not use it that way, no one may use it that. "You have nothing to point to but a history of incorrigible usage mistakes as your credentials". I'm

Oddly, you seem to have failed to address the speech features of a number of former Chicago Residents Alienated Pentagonically (CRAP, preferably pronounced "creeap"). How do Donald Rumsfeld, Sy Hersh and Bob Woodward sound to you?