I don't recommend that site for any one. It is full of crap when it comes to AmE. Use either M-W and reference.com dude in AmE = 'dud Notice the yod-dropping, that is, no /j/ (in IPA) after alveolar consonants. What do you mean? I

I don't know of a webpage that drills these ideas, but here is some written material that may help. There are, in American English, five types of verb with regard to the pronunciation of the regular past tense. (The spelling rules are

As a learner of the Polish language I've come to accept that all consonant combinations are possible with enough practice. Ksenofobia is the Polish word for Xenophobia, pronounced exactly as it would be in English if a word-initial

Hi all, I'm studying Betty Schrampfer Azar's book, Understanding and ... I don't understand the explanation she gave about the reason. No reason. Just usage. Any time you have a written s after a t it's pronounced as an s. meats,

You are not the only one, even I did not ... (Often known as John Lawler but not in the groups) Many thanks for the explanation. Having recently returned from a holiday in Ireland, my interest was piqued. It's the silent consonants that are

If a word of imitative origin was affected by the Great Vowel Shift, then it would no longer sound like the sound that it was supposed to imitate. That's not necessarily true. An onomatopoeic word may still be about as imitative if a vowel is

Just as the /n/ in "sink" gets assimilated to a velar /N/ to match the following velar /k/, the extra ... because English doesn't preserve geminate nasals. The result is /'g@v@rm@nt/, which is normal, except for hypercorrectors.

During lunch with my German colleagues today the following question arose: why is it that English has adopted a German ... a particular breed of long-bodied, short-legged German dogs, when German itself does not use this word for the same breed?