This article attempts to address the challenge of mother tongue influence on English pronunciation, to briefly explain the linguistic reasons, and to demonstrate how Linguistics provide solutions for ...

Have you ever wondered why English spelling often seems to defy logic — like why choir and liar rhyme, but laughter and ...

In the summer of 1859, a year before his election to the U.S. presidency, Abraham Lincoln received a curious letter in the ...

This May, students from across the United States will gather in Washington D.C., for the 100th anniversary of the Scripps ...

Author Gabe Henry explores the strange history of spelling reform at Nerd Nite Hudson Valley in Beacon on August 18, with ...

The course provides an introduction to English phonetics and intonation as well as insight into ... theoretical questions regarding the classification of vowels and consonants, (b) a test in phonemic ...

I would like to befuddle you with news about [U] and three diphthongs. [Y] is used to represent /u/. Sometimes it is a ...

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