A related question. When do you use feet and when do you use yards? My impression is that yards are mainly used to measure distances of and ranges that are on the same horizontal plane as the observer. So a moose might be 300 yards away. But when

So to recap, four digit numbers with two significant digits are usually read by first reading the first two digits and adding hundred, but this is a bit informal? I didn't really get a clear picture of whether in the same kind of informal

How would you read out the following numbers? 2,684 ft? Would you say 26 hundred and 84 or two thousand six hundred and eighty four feet? How about any other four digit number? I believe the four digit numbers with only the two first digits

I know new separately is pronounced the same way as gnu . But Merriam-Webster’s pronunciation guide says the following about the pronunciation of new: " in place names usually (ˌ)nu̇ or nə or (ˌ)ni\ " Those would be the same vowels as in

What is the vowel sound preceding the final /z/ in words ending in es? Is it /ɪ/, as in the word 'is', or is it /i/, as in the word 'ease'?

So did I get it right? The center and the front of the tongue is raised towards the hard palete while the tip of the tongue remains relatively stationary, the sides of the tongue are pressed against the upper teeth to prevent any lateral air flow

I'm I right to think that the former sound is the more prevalent one? Oops, what I meant to say is of course Am I right to think that the former sound is the more prevalent one? I would have edited the post, but didn’t find that feature

So, I'm I to understand that all final stops in AmE are unreleased? /p/, /t/, /k/, as in nap, hat, hack? and their voiced counterparts /b/, /d/, /g/, as in nab, had, hag? And let's not forget the nasals, /n/, /m/, /ng/, pen, gem, king?

I found this page with good illustrations of how to pronounce each sounds in AE. http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/frameset.html Is the /r/ sound featured on this page what is called an alveolar approximant by phoneticians?