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The Advance of 'Goose' | Dialect Blog
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Eight British and Irish Accent Maps - Starkey Comics
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| | Eight maps to show how the differences in how vowels are pronounced in Britain and Ireland. Explanations of each map below: Map 1: Rhoticity Rhoticity in English refers to whether or not an "r" is pronounced when it isn't before a vowel.For example, in rhotic accents, the word "arm" has a true "r" sound in [...]
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How to Pronounce Any English Word
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| | A pragmatic introduction to the International Phonetic Alphabet-or how to read those funny /?s?mb?lz/ on Wiktionary.
| | separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com
Separated by a Common Language: balk and baulk
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Meet English's Newest Consonant - Danny L. Bate
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| As stable as they may seem, every sound of every spoken language, at some point in the past, didn't exist. The incessant shifting of speech involves the innovation of sounds, when either new ones are born or old ones transform. Consequently, within the sounds that a particular spoken language (such as Modern English) makes use...