2012年11月1日 · When I say "wrong" people always mishear as "long". Pronouncing "r" and "l" correctly is always a big challenge for me. In Chinese we also have a syllable pronounced like …

2011年4月21日 · A friend said that epitome is pronounced as epi-tuh-mi and not epi-tome (with the tome like home). Who is right? Also, is the pronunciation purely dependent on the region …

2011年5月1日 · This got me thinking: is putting the emphasis on the wrong word considered a form of mispronouncing a phrase? I realize that the "correct" way to say a word or phrase is …

2015年11月19日 · It is important to remember that English speakers in general (apart from those trained in phonetics) are quite ignorant of this rule, and yet if a foreigner uses the wrong …

Why is the spelling of pronounce and pronunciation different? If one originally did not know the spelling of pronunciation, one would when hearing it verbally deduce its spelling to be …

2015年7月31日 · Lots of native English speakers make mistakes in pronunciation. On the other hand, there are lots of would-be pretentious snobs on the internet who "correct" pronunciations …

2010年8月11日 · I checked more than 10 dictionaries and the pronunciation of "especially" is given as: /ɪˈspɛʃ (ə)li, ɛ-/ It's probably the personal way of pronouncing that word for the …

2011年10月24日 · For example, Night -> Nite Through -> Thru The -> Da Though -> Tho Nite even appears in some dictionaries as having the same meaning as night. What is it called …

2017年11月18日 · I understand pronunciation may differ from one person to another depending on the accent spoken by the person. But one of my friends told me that ate and eight must be …

Absolutely. Different (or wrong) pronunciation can make a word unintelligible. The thing with English is that there are so many homophones (e.g. threw/through, your/you're, yore/yaw), …