Alex's phonetic thoughts

The Occupational English Test (OET) is an international English language test that assesses the language proficiency of health care profess...

The phonetician Jack Windsor Lewis has written to ask the following: “… I’ve been exposed to quite a bit of medical terminology and fo...

Last September saw the publication of English Phonetics and Pronunciation Practice (EPPP) , Routledge. The book is authored by Paul...

Luke Nicholson (picture left) is an experienced accent coach qualified by the International Phonetic Association and a member of both th...

The book you can see to the right is called Scientific English and was brought out by Zanichelli in 2007. It is essentially a guide conta...

Some days before the UK’s EU referendum, Cambridge Dictionaries Online published an article on their blog About Words entitled European ...

On page 13 of his latest book Sounds Interesting (2014, CUP) , John Wells writes: "When my cardiologist started me on a drug cal...