Phonetic rules usually apply universally regardless of the language in question. For example, it's easier to pronounce the m sound before a p , b and m sound and therefore we have words like impossible, imbibe, and impolite instead of

I don't understand what you mean, it's just that "would do it" and "will do it" both sound somewhere around /wʊdːʉɪt/ to me, in connected speech. Maybe the difference lies in the vowel... I susped the vowel in

Dear friend, glides are sounds produced with little or no obstruction of the airstream that are preceded or followed by a vowel. If they are followed by vowels, they are called on-glides , as in woo, where /w/ is an on-glide. If these sounds are

From Dictionary.com Word History : Why do we pronounce one (wŭn) and once (wŭns) while other words derived from one, like only, alone, and atone, are pronounced with a long o? Over time, stressed vowels commonly become diphthongs, as when Latin

syllable Segment of speech usually consisting of a vowel with or without accompanying consonant sounds (e.g., a , I , out , too , cap , snap , check ). A syllabic consonant, like the final n sound in button and widen , also constitutes a syllable.

Samuraifingers: I'm sorry if I made it seem like I was expecting a professional assessment of my pronunciation. I am really only looking for brief comments such as "this or that vowel has the wrong quality" or "too much

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

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 /

Yes, there are regional variations in American English. Do you know which accent is chosen by MW as the reference in the pronunciation keys. Is it General American? My problem is that, as I have mentioned before, they are indeed denoted

Wow, you even studied linguistics... Well, /ɪ/ is the vowel in TIP, and /aɪ/ is the diphthong in TYPE. The symbol /i/ technically stands for a higher vowel, as in TEA, for example. That's IPA. SAMPA is another transcription method where only