hello EForums. 1- today ,i have a sentence i can't understand the meaning. here : "We're americans. We're not big on quitting ." What does "be big on quitting" mean ?Is it an idiom ? and what does the

#1 No, I don't think that's true. If carried, varied, etc. sounded like "it" or even "id", it would sound more like a South African accent than a British one. The biggest difference between British and American

That's not true, but not for the reasons others have ... letters didn't all sound alike, as you said they would. BTW, I wwasn't talking about silent letters. When I try to say the alphabet without moving my lips or tongue, there are no

As someone living in Northern Ireland, the most accurate comment ... over the centuries by migrants from England, Scotland, and Wales. However, there are identifiable features which are common in speech across Northern Ireland. Those of us with

But how come two different tutors said the same thing. They do not know each other. They both have the misfortune of being incorrect. Some incorrect beliefs are widespead. They told me in my pronunciation there is no difference between

Charles Riggs wrote on 14 Jul 2004: If the ... "***", then why not a "twat" instead of a "twit"? Why not, indeed? If Americans can call a man a ***, the British can call a man a twat. They can I didn't know that

For that dialect, yes. Take me, for example. In my idiolect "piano" and "chianti" have two syllables. I have gathered that for the vast majority of English speakers these are three-syllable words that such speakers are

I think all of your cot/caught vowels sound like normative CINC AmE "aw". Suddenly you're throwing around this word "normative", which means about the same as "prescriptive". No one can be rightfully prescribing

I started a new thread, because my question is not quite the same as what is under discussion in the ... a sound that, to us non-Americans, seems closer to 'a', so I started thinking about the letters 'a, o, u'. It's been

It's been said that Alastair Cooke sounded English to Americans ... mid-Atlantic. Angela Lansbury, I gather, is also a good example. No, I think there's a difference between what sounds to an American like an "English" accent