A powerful tool, provided by the U.S. Department of State's site, American English for English Language Teachers Around the World, to help teachers incorporate English pronunciation into lessons.

It includes words in both British and American English. The dictionary & thesaurus includes audio pronunciation, text pronunciation, adjectives, adverbs, synonyms, antonyms, similar word ...

If you know this system it makes it much easier to work out the pronunciation of any English word. You don't even need a teacher, just a learner's dictionary. Three radio programmes on the topic ...

According to Woody, the masses who believe there exists only one correct way to pronounce typically French words are imposing a French standard on American English speakers while they do not ...

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For a number of reasons mostly within my control, I attended a very bad college, where I happened to be a very mediocre student. I was there to study classics, and discovered upon my arrival that ...

We act with shock when someone using profanity in public makes the news, especially when that someone is running for elected ...

An American guest on BBC Question Time's US Election special has been mercilessly mocked after incorrectly pronouncing a common British slang word on Thursday's episode. Democrat Pennsylvania ...

The U is sharp. Well that makes sense as there's nut in it." However, she contrasts this with the American pronunciation, whereby it's given an 'ooh' sound as in 'Noo-tella', which diverges from ...

French and English have very different ways to pronounce the /r/ sound. The struggle goes both ways, so while a ...