Agreed, if such coursebooks claim to be representing American pronunciation. They are incorrect even when representing RP. Apparently length is indeed an inherent part of vowel phonemes in several important British dialects, where /i/ ~ (i:) is in

I stopped reading Katherine Kerr when the same mistake was perpetuated in her 3rd or 4th book: she gave 'thin' ... of an o - I like to call it a smiley - so %u means a smiley over the u. That diacritic is called a "breve" in

I know dialects and idiolects differ on this pernt, but in my dialect "gram" and "Graham" and "graham" and, I ... I'm talking from, what with the vowel shift and all. A Southern US speaker would probably have even

I've followed this thread with some amazement at how 'thing' ... the 'thing' in 'another thing coming' supposed to represent? Retribution? This issue was pretty much beaten to a pulp in AUE a couple of years back. So

This is a non-sequitur argument. That the French word "lingerie" is pronounced in English with the "ay" of "hay," How strange. I would have thought the main oddity about the English pronunciation of lingerie was the

Oddly, you seem to have failed to address the speech features of a number of former Chicago Residents Alienated Pentagonically (CRAP, preferably pronounced "creeap"). How do Donald Rumsfeld, Sy Hersh and Bob Woodward sound to you?

representation learnt though guide I your Note to Janet: I'm not American - I'm from northern England (Sheffield). Dear Jonathan, Sorry about that. I suppose it's a mistake to suppose that everyone's American. Janet Australia,

Jones: Hmmm...maybe you people aren't dumb. Maybe you just never learned the vowel sounds in terms of "long" and "short". ... with the actual length of the vowels. It just means that each English vowel has, in general, two

"Ms." may not be an abbreviation, but it must not ... is "nth" at least one computerized version of Scrabble accepts it. sh - don't tell everyone. I made a mistake in my previous message, as I realized after receiving a

This is news to me. I've heard a strong "ko" ... and they have "k@". Kuh-LIN-ee-er, kuh-LATE. Almost klinear and klate. I'm puzzled. When you say "Merriam-Webster", what dictionary are you referring to? Both