"Molly Mockford" (Email Removed) a écrit dans le message de : Why is it a university, but an umbilical cord? Because of the pronunciation, not the spelling. University is pronounced Yooniversity (i.e. a consonant-sound rather than a

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

the of helps, This is true, but it complicates matters. For example (here I'm using ASCII IPA to represent IPA), the Collins dictionaries, Cambridge dictionaries, and the OED all use (@U) to represent the British (Received Pronunciation)

Just lately I have heard several people, including sports commentators on radio, using the term 'furtherest' when they obviously mean ... 'furtherest'. The superlative of far is always given as 'furthest'. Has anyone else

My fellow court reporting students and I are in disagreement ... insightful comments on this would be most appreciated. Thank you. Phonemically, it doesn't matter, as there are, to the best of my knowledge, no words that are distinguished by

They do. It was cut-&-pasted from the on-line full OED, which they boast is updated quarterly. That particular definition is ... dating of it as 1989 means that in 1989 they looked at it and found no need to revise it. I believe that that is

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 (*)