Thank you for your thoughts, Benita. The form you have chosen is perhaps not quite right for the sentiment, but I certainly appreciate the sentiment.

Did you have a question?

Hey, LL - that's pretty interesting. The female from Birmingham, England did not have a Brummie accent though, and the others were not extreme - just a twang, but still interesting.

Here's a really old one: She sells sea shells on the sea shore. The shells she sells are sea-shore shells. And be very careful with this one: I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's mate And here's a great poem on

Hi Sravanthi and welcome to the forums. I fear that your request may involve buying or renting videos, or subscribing to a site. if you have satellite tv, you might try watching some of the English language news channels, documentaries, etc. For

The on-line Cambridge Learners' Dictionary will show you the phoenetics of any word you look up, if you select "show phonetics". http://dictionary.cambridge.org/ There is also a section on the phoenetic alphabet.

There are so many Br. accents and dialects! Learners generally pick up the one spoken by their teacher. RP is the type of speech used by the queen. If you want something "middle of the road" the most commonly used is probably "Estuary English" as

Koff is correct: addiction is a pattern of compulsive drug use which is characterised by a craving for drugs - generally opiods - for effects other than pain relief. Sudden withdrawal of the drug leads to severe physical effects, but this is an

I rather like this, Miharu. A few apostrophes in the right place would help it, I think; e.g. "goblins' gold and leprechaun things"

Yup. Found the edit button; apparently the time limit is about a nano-second! I guess we'll all get used to things, and the glitches wiill be ironed out in time.