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IPA Tutorial: Lesson 2 | Dialect Blog
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The Grammarphobia Blog: Rhyme and reason in Shakespeare
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| | Did "word" once rhyme with "afford" and "sword," as it seems to do in Shakespeare's "Sonnet 79" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream"?
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International Phonetic Alphabet sitr.us
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| | In last week's post I provided phonetic transcriptions of some example words using the International Phonetic Alphabet, or IPA for short. I thought it would be helpful to follow that up with some information about what the IPA is, and how to read it. And as a bonus, after learning about IPA transcription you will be able to better read pronunciation guides on Wikipedia. ...
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Differences Between English-Spanish Pronunciation Part 2 - The Five Main Vowels « whaack
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The Grammarphobia Blog: Whence the silent 'c' in 'indict'?
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| The verb "indict" wasn't spelled or pronounced with a "c" when it first appeared in Middle English in the early 14th century.