Today’s lesson will involve a lot of practice because it is in oral English. We are revisiting the pronunciations of short and long vowel sounds /r/ and /r:/, as we have in ‘chip’ and ...

Southern accents are disappearing in some parts of the U.S. South due to the migration of people into the region from other ...

The only thing close to a silent letter combination is GN, which is a sort of nyee sound for which there’s no real equivalent ...

In Enough is Enuf, writer Gabe Henry wittily and engagingly confronts all of these questions head-on and arrives at a surprising answer: We actually have tried, on many occasions across numerous ...

She also teaches accents to actors, most recently at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis when they did “Sherwood: the ...

Ghotis evolved long ago, but they didn’t get their name until the 19th ... In his quest to clarify different vowel sounds, Orrmin just made things even more confusing by adding extra letters (for ...

Or why "sew" and "new" look like they should match, but sound nothing alike ... the real issue with spelling was how to denote a long vowel versus a short vowel. So the word "fir," F-I-R, versus ...

His recommendations included removing the silent “e” at the end of words, removing unpronounced consonants (such as the “b” in “debt”), and duplicating vowels to indicate a long sound ...

That would be putting aside more than four decades of elegant, passionate performances from an international icon based in the U.K. who’s ... and to make sure the vowel sounds were in the ...

The second letter is "U"8 Across: Button that might make a "Whoosh!" sound — HINT: It ends with the letter "D" 1 Down: Word pronounced like its first letter (which is followed by four vowels ...