Dear friend, glides are sounds produced with little or no obstruction of the airstream that are preceded or followed by a vowel. If they are followed by vowels, they are called on-glides , as in woo, where /w/ is an on-glide. If these sounds are

AJ Hoge's "effortless english" is a waste of money. I made the mistake of buying it for a friend who doesn't speak much English and she doesn't even use it. I don't blame her because it takes a lot of effort to learn with

Use the vowel in please or place for -ei- in ur hubby's last name.

I'm having an argument with my friend. He thinks that in "the wounded," the is pronounced "thee". He thinks because it is a vowel sound. I on the other hand don't think "w" is a vowel, and regardless of the

Thanks, GG, but how about this sentence: I'd like to get myself a wife...or girlfriend. Can we do away with the article 'a' in this case? How about cases where there's vowel like this: I'd like to get her a car...or an

Longman says "mi-nit", while Merriam Webster says "mi-nut". I have never paid too much attention to that, because I have heard it several times, so I can just say it the way I have usually heard it, which is more like

I guess you are not as old as I am :-).... When I was in school, I was taught that the vowels were: (put a sing songy tune to it) a,e,i,o,u and sometimes y and w. My husband and I were talking about it tonight and he never heard of it either.

I am 44 years old and the vowel "song/ryhme" was always a, e, i, o u sometimes y and w... I had this exact arugment with my husband last night and he was adiment that there was never the usage of w as a vowel... but y and w are

How does "weight" differ from "wait"? "Wait", for me, has a single long "a" sound, as in "mate"; "weight" has a diphthong: long broad "e" gliding into an "i". Are you

"Wait", for me, has a single long "a" sound, as in "mate"; "weight" has a diphthong: long broad "e" gliding into an "i". Interesting - for me, a speaker of southern English, wait, mate