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Hi, Could you please check my reflection for grammar and vocabulary mistakes? For a number of months I have been studying word families. In addition to this, I have also been dissecting words for prefixes, suffixes, consonant blends and digraphs, as well as vowel diphthongs. In order for me to...

Could you please check my reflection for grammar and vocabulary mistakes? For a number of months I have been studying word families. In addition to this, I have also been dissecting words for prefixes, suffixes, consonant blends and digraphs, as well as vowel diphthongs. In order for me to have...

The conventional teaching is that the vowels are AEIOU and sometimes Y.Y is a consonant in Yet and Yoghurt. It is a vowel in City and Candy. W is a consonant in Woman and Wine.W is part of a diphthong in words likePAWN, FAWN, FOWL, FEW My ESL books based on phonics study teach the short vowel...

The consonant is doubled if there is a short vowel between consonants in a stressed syllable:forgetting, swimmingIf the syllable is not stressed, doubling doesn't occur:targetingNo doubling occurs if the vowel is pronounced as a diphthong:growingIn British English - illogically - l is...

Yes, there are regional variations in American English. Do you know which accent is chosen by MW as the reference in the pronunciation keys. Is it General American?My problem is that, as I have mentioned before, they are indeed denoted differently in British English. The first one is a simple...

It would be helpful for you to re-read the rules in the link posted by Jim above. The rules do NOT require the words to be monosyllabic. They also apply to words with more than one syllable. However, you only need to pay attention to the last syllable when applying the rules. To summarize,...

Hey CB, how about , ten. Hi Jackson, vowel letters are A, E, I, O, U.Vowel sounds are all those sounds you use while speaking that are not consonants. The most common vowel sound in English is the schwa (IPA symbol: /ə/). IPA is the phonetic alphabet often used in phonetic transcriptions in...

The soft sound of the English consonant <g> is pronounced as /dz/ (The IPA symbol would have the 'z' as a yogh) as in your example ‘image’. This is not considered a diphthong. A diphthong is a sequence of 2 perceptibly different VOWEL sounds or a vowel and a glide in a syllable. There’re...

LPD offers 3 pronunciations: The 1st one (Main BrE) is with the first ‘o’ as a diphthong as in the word ‘show’(/b/), the ‘y’ as a semivowel as in ‘city’ (/i/), the second ‘o’ as a schwa; the alternative BrE is to pronounce the ‘o’ as in ‘hot’ /Z/; theAmE proninciation is closer to the Main BrE...

Could you please tell me how to pronounce the word Bigsby (it's a kind of tremolo bar used in electric guitar)? Does it rhyme with by? I don't pronounce the diphthong, but I don't know whether I should. Also, how is the word Gretsch pronounced? (That's a brand of guitars.) Do you pronounce all...