hmmm actually sometimes this -ize or -ise confused me damn alot!! like a confusion Of apologISE or apologIZE !!!anybody got a tip ?? If I may add something to this disccusion. I have frequently read articles written by Britons who use -ize, just

My suggestion to you, Arfy, is to use phonetic ... all sorts of diacritic marks distinguishing allophones of various consonants. The concept of "allophones" belongs to phonemics, not phonetics. An allophone is any of various phonetic

Phonetically, of course, the only place most of us in the US have a length contrast is in pairs like "cap" and "cab", where the only phonetic difference is that the vowel in the second is longer. That may be true of "most

According to The Columbia Guide to Standard American English , "xenophobia" has four standard pronouciations. Does any other word do better, or even equal? What are they? The article in question, at http://www.bartleby.com/68/0/6600.html

So, I had a Dick & Jane book and I learned by phonetics. As the site article mentioned, Dick & ... definitely not at St. Anthony's Lithuanian (Church and) School, at the corner of W. Vernor and 25th Street in Detroit. Any connection