This debate really seems to be about two different things, spelling and pronunciation. The letter w (and y) is often used with other vowels (and sometimes alone as well) in spelling to reperesent a vowel sound . In the words hi and by , the letter

I remember at school there was a combined volume of "Billy Liar" and "The Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner" ubiquitous to the "English Rooms". I thought the latter to be the better story, better written; but

As per phonetics theory, I've been told one should use the indefinite article "a" before words beginning with a consonant and "an" before words beginning with a vowel or a diphthong. And the sound "y" ( or / j /

Known as the Shrewsbury Rule. Is it? The only hit I got from Google for "Shrewsbury Rule" (including the quotes) was a commercial site that had nothing to do with it! However, I know that the topic of how to pronounce it has come up

I think it might be an idea to have something on the website about "short" and "long" vowels, because there does seem to be some confusion about this. Long and short vowels (in the layman's sense of "long" and

I think English pronunciation is probably the most difficult aspect ... in English that don't exist in Italian Spanish or French. Well, after mastering the sounds of Latvian and German, English has only the two versions of "th" to