By Regards, Vowels

I'm afraid that in British English the rule *is* different. We do indeed tend to use hyphens after the prefix "non-" (which avoids the possibility of mispronouncing words such as "nonnative" ).As regards other prefixes, "pre-" and "co-" still sometimes...

Hi, It has been my experience that students become lost when consulting dictionaries with regard to phonetic symbols as many times each one uses different phonetic symbols. This has caused much grief and I just tell my online students to stay away from it and try to spell the pronunciation out...

Just so you know; I am American and my english is obviously going to differ somewhat from the British version. My question regards the use of "A" and "AN". My education has taught me "A" precedes words beginning with consonant sounds such as, "a car" or "a house". "AN" precedes words...

Hi MusesunIt depends on the stress. Doubling occurs if there is one vowel between two consonants and the stress is on that syllable:forgettinglettingoccurredIn interpret the stress is on the second syllable: to prevent a smiley from appearing!

With regard to “figured out” which Kaufmann uses twice in that passage, - well, “figured out” and “figures out.” Another translator uses the word “divined” (gottlich ) instead of “ figured out” and yet another uses the word “grasped” (griff). I don’t know the original German word Nietzsche...

Any comments? With regard to slavish: Not unexpected. Except for a few nationality terms (Danish, Polish), I think only the lax forms of the vowels a, e, i, or o are ever used in a stressed syllable before final -ish (or -ic or -id). (radish, perish, finish, Spanish, polish, ...) (u is...

Carlin wrote: I would like you to help me with this one. How do you produce the endings with -ton, and -tain, like in Trenton,Quinton, mountain and fountain. Please I'd like specific information on how to pronounce those ones. Regards. At most, pronounce them with the schwa (as in...

Hi Please explain me whether I should use "a unique" or "an unique"? If "a unique" is to be followed, please tell me why it should be so inspite of "u" being a vowel. Many thanks for your help in this regard Elango P.P.

I am not sure about American English, but in British English I believe the final 'e' in 'convenient' is indeed pronounced as a schwa. As for the pronunciation rules, I don't think there are any in this regard. You will just have to check with the dictionary as MrM said.

I don't know of any rules that dictate the pronunciation in that regard. I tend to believe that every language has some element that is particularly difficult to learn and with English, it's the pronunciation and spelling. Seriously, for what other language do national spelling competitions exist?