Is there a difference in the pronunciation of General American 'back' and RP 'back'? For example as in: I came back Wednesday. The reason for asking is because my pronouncing dictionary gives the /æ/ intermediate vowel for both

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

Hi busido, There are probably people who would enjoy writing descriptions of the mouth to see if thereby you could be coaxed into producing the correct sounds. But I think that would be a diversion, and not a practical solution. If this be your

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,

Hi, It has been my experience that students become lost when consulting dictionaries with regard to phonetic symbols as many times each one uses different phonetic symbols. This has caused much grief and I just tell my online students to stay

Tony Mountifield schrieb: "Does your pronunciation of 'scone' (a variety of bun) rhyme with 'gone' or 'stone' or 'boon'?" To my ears, 'gone' has a longer vowel sound than the similar pronunciation

Just so you know; I am American and my english is obviously going to differ somewhat from the British version. My question regards the use of "A" and "AN". My education has taught me "A" precedes words beginning with consonant sounds such as, "a

Hi Musesun It depends on the stress. Doubling occurs if there is one vowel between two consonants and the stress is on that syllable: for g e t t ing l e t t ing oc c u r r ed In interpret the stress is on the second syllable: . If the stress were

With regard to “figured out” which Kaufmann uses twice in that passage, - well, “figured out” and “figures out.” Another translator uses the word “divined” (gottlich ) instead of “ figured out” and yet another uses the word “grasped” (griff). I