Can you just correct some simple sentences for me. I wonder if them are right or not. 1. I believe that this trait of mine would help me to be a good teacher. 2. A translator whom I look up to said a language learner who consistently

Remarkably, that gentle valedictory provoked a flood of letters. (Well, eight letters.) In a sense it was much adieu about nothing, Perhaps he means Much ado about nothing. Adieu is a French word use to salute someone whom one expects never to see

I have come to the sudden realization that I don't ... and I can't say (wVjr). -Aaron J. Dinkin Dr. Whom I pronounce them all in the same way. But I have heard others pronounce them differently, as you say. Fi-uhr, with a schwa. But no one

Indeed, that's what we CINCs have been saying all along: your "ah" sounds like "aw" to us. If you say that to me, you say nothing. As a description of a sound, "aw" has no useful meaning. It seems pretty clear to

When I try to pronounce (IN), (&N), or {EN), it seems difficult and unnatural. But (A:N) (as in "wrong") and (VN) (as in "hung") are no problem. I find (&N) unnatural to pronounce as well, but no more so than I find

I've always wondered why English dictionaries use IPA instead of the idiosyncratic systems they force their users to decipher tradition, probably. IPA, whatever the variant, makes much more sense, especially to people who have learned other

I certainly hear "marry" as different from the other two. ... close to my "merry", but probably there is a difference. I hear something between a "slight" difference and very different. I think the distinction is

But not every -ing form is a gerund. I think ... or "he is raising Cain" (verb)? I hear the second. Yet the example referred to the first. Maybe pluralizing the highlighted nouns will clarify the point: Kids enjoy raising beans.