What's your point? I made an implicit point: it is not cognitively productive to remember pronounciation for every word. What learners should be taught: a set of heuristics to find possible pronunciations for a word. Mastery of phonetics (or

Hi I didn't mean to undermine your answer. I'm sorry if I implied such a thing, but I was merely giving an example and saying that, given the actual pronunciation of most of these suffixes, I find it more logical to use -ize, since people

CJ is right, the only way to know for sure is to ask someone you trust. I introduce all of my students to the Merriam Webster online dictionary for pronunciation because I have found them to have the best searchable audio clips, and they speak as

Dear teachers, Is there a reason why the suffixe "ed" in participles / adjectives is pronounced "id" whether the consonant is voiced or voiceless ? example: "wicked, learned, beloved, aged" Would you please give me more? Many thanks, Hela

How To Learn English ? PART 2 Learning a language is mainly based upon self-struggle. Maybe the only thing to be done by the teachers on this subject is to advise a method. Because, in a sense, language cannot be taught but learned. So,

Who the charity help? -- Wrong Whom the charity help? -- Wrong Who does the charity help? -- OK, but considered informal. Whom does the charity help? -- OK and formallly correct. The only word with more than one syllable

Phonetic spelling as in subject... I was watching a BBC programme on Edward Hopper, which relied strongly on an interview ... this is it found in some carefully-delineated dialect of artistic America, or is it perhaps just one man's

poetaster = poet + aster where aster is an obscure (to me) perjorative suffix. What are some other perjorative suffixes? "-ard", which I think is productive in French, has supplied English with ***, coward, drunkard, sluggard, ***, &

Being new to this group, I apologize if this question is not appropriate here. Would the best candidate for the spelling of the word describing the science, study or theory of the sport of Rugby be: Rugbiology Rugbeology Rugbyology Rugbology Are