Don Myers wrote on 20 Nov 2004: Teachers tell students to practice reading. Students then run across many words they've never heard pronounced. As they see the ... quickly pick out the word in a list be helpful even though there is no meaning

Interestingly, there is a town in Missouri named Nevada and they pronounce it nuh-VAY-duh. There's another city like that... ... dunno. The name of Houston Street in Manhattan is pronounced /'h&wst@n/. I'm so used to this

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

I don't know from linguistics and phonetics (we're sending Young Aaron to grad school for that), but I think the ... context where there's a closely linked following word beginning with a vowel, however, it turns into a flap sound (*)

"In final position (t) is aspirated and shortens the vowel before it, whilst (d) is particularly weak and makes only ... do you pronounce the "t" sound when it's in the final position of the word, like "cent",