Thank you for your answer. But I've just been surfing on the net, and here's what I've found: 1) " Cheney: Pronunciation doesn't matter The Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Dick Cheney has been in the news for years now, and reporters still

A question for the American readers: how is the surname of vice-president Cheney commonly pronounced in the United States? According to the pronunciation dictionaries that I've consulted, the surname Cheney can have two different pronunciations:

Thanks. I agree with you, and I prefer "computer mice": they are mice, aren't they? I have asked this question because in my English-Italian dictionary (Hazon, Garzanti) I had read that the plural of "mouse" in the technical sense is "mouses"!

For people who visit Wales but are in a hurry: there exists an "accepted abbreviation" of your place name: it is "Llanfair PG". I've found this so disappointingly short form in a pronouncing dictionary (P. Roach and J. Hartmann, Cambridge

Hello. I'm sorry for not reading your message before; but I hope I'm still in time. About "estuary English", you can find a lot at the following address: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/estuary/index.html But you probably knew it already.

Thank you very much. Your answer is very useful for me.

Anyway, it seems that he's commonly referred to (in Britain) as "tòlkiin", with the stress on the first syllable. Is that true? Thank you very much for answering me. I find this forum very useful and interesting, too.

Thank you very much. Do you know whether he pronounces like that himself?

A question for the American users of this forum: how is the surname of Colin Powell commonly pronounced in the United States? Is the first syllable (as in "how") or (as in "so")? Do you know how he pronounces himself? Thank you for your answers.

1) "I have a pen." 2) "I have my good reasons for that." 3) "I have to go there." I'm often in doubt about how to put in the interrogative and negative forms the verb "to have". The easiest case is when "to have" is used as an