Hello, another English teacher here. I have been teaching English in China for about 2 and a half years now and also speak fluent French, decent Spanish and am learning Chinese (not as hard as you may think once you get the hang of those tones,

I don't think there is a hard and fast rule here. However: If you have a two syllable word that ends with an 'a', it's typical that the vowel in the first is short. Like 'dada', 'feta', etc. This is not a rule so much as a pattern that should

I'm surprised at the 'wrapped' spelling. I always assume it camefrom 'rapture'. That occurred to me too, but I suspect it's just an extension of 'wrapped' as in 'immersed' or 'absorbed', which is

accent circonflexe) % is that diacritic I have never known the name ... smiley - so %u means a smiley over the u. That diacritic is called a "breve" in English. Thanks for that. I always wondered. - prince. There may well be people for

I stopped reading Katherine Kerr when the same mistake was perpetuated in her 3rd or 4th book: she gave 'thin' ... of an o - I like to call it a smiley - so %u means a smiley over the u. That diacritic is called a "breve" in

A.u.e: Does anyone else have these two different "-ire"s? Consciously or unconsciously? With the same distribution as mine or different? When I come to think about it, it appears that words in your first list are slightly shorter sounds.

If I want you to use the vowel of your ... order to accomplish that? What would you suggest I write? Before I made a suggestion, I would want to be persuaded that there was some good reason for you to want me to use a vowel when you don't know

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"Jonathan" is different. Oh. I didn't know that. Well then, to be more specific: "John" and "Jonathan" both come from Hebrew names that attribute some positive attribute to God, and begin with the element

(begin quoted post)> The pronunciation of these words with an ... and more sensible, spelling for /hw/. (end quoted post) Thank you CJ. So it's the meddling of those cheese-eating surrender monkeys we've to thank. Is it too late to put