Hi! Thank you for this interesting discussion and for your answer.Your opinion is important for me. First of all, my problem concerns teaching English as a second language. It's very bad that teachers instructing pupils how to pronounce /ʌ/

In 'ertford, 'ereford and 'ampshire, 'urricanes 'ardly hever 'appen. Is ... remember Parker in Thurderbirds caricatured this a lot. Cheers Tony Hi. I think i remember my English Professor calling it

I'm afraid that in British English the rule *is* different. We do indeed tend to use hyphens after the prefix "non-" (which avoids the possibility of mispronouncing words such as "nonnative" ). As regards other prefixes,

Yes, but John Hall implied that he heard this in ... (using SAMPA notation) but I've never noticed this. (SAMPA: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/english.htm) SAMPA is itself quite confusing since it offers two different symbols (V and U)

Hi all, I'm studying Betty Schrampfer Azar's book, Understanding and ... I don't understand the explanation she gave about the reason. No reason. Just usage. Any time you have a written s after a t it's pronounced as an s. meats,

One time at the beginning i wante dtodomesomenoodles.So i have ... noodles! It's a "no no " in the italian kitchen. I don't know what "Topf" means. Doesn't sound Italian since they generally need to have a vowel at

That's a rather sweeping, and possibly quite incorrect, statement to make. And why the distinction between British and English? For the record, this was BBC World News on radio and the presenters (there were several who did the boosh ...

Your comments seem to suggest, innerestingly, that the features we think of as the Great Upper Midwestern Vowel Shift (also ... could rural speech have made any headway in the cities, where "country people" have traditionally been held

If a word of imitative origin was affected by the Great Vowel Shift, then it would no longer sound like the sound that it was supposed to imitate. That's not necessarily true. An onomatopoeic word may still be about as imitative if a vowel is

My fellow court reporting students and I are in disagreement over the vowel sound that occurs in words such as ... of what others say or what the dicationary says...) Any insightful comments on this would be most appreciated. Thank you. The simple