No preview available.

"J. J. Lodder" (Email Removed) schrieb im Newsbeitrag I noticed one of those today. The Dutch use "mailen" ... they say "mail" I've learned to ask, "You mean e-mail?" Some purists did try to introduce

On one of my satellite TV channels I occasionally see a Chinese lady reading the news. I don't know which ... separately from every other. There is no slurring and the words have a metronome-like regularity with no variation in length. Such is

Perhaps, but haven't heard it rhyming with booze yet. But maybe you hear others than I do. OK, they don't say it exactly like Americans say "booze." There's a different quality (tight, covered?) about the wrong vowel ... I

I've never heard or seen Steve Irwin, but I understand ... pronunciations will have many people puzzled unless they use subtitles. Sometimes the TV news here in the US will use subtitles when interviewing Australians, Brits, Jamaicans, etc.

I'm a good case in point. For some reason, all of my /l/s, when speaking English, are velar. (Most English speakers, includingthose I grew up with, use an alveolar (l) before and between vowels and a velar (l~) after vowels.) Actually velar,

I've been noodling around the net but there's too much for me to take in. I'm interested in knowing how ... on aue had a spectrogram made of them saying 'mary merry marry' how similar and how different might they look? When I

No preview available.

No preview available.

Where I come from, good old England (north), these equalities hold. However, when chatting on IRC to an American about ... ah explain to me how s/he sees it, as it is hard for me to realise it. Thanks a lot! As I'm sure you're aware,