Alex's phonetic thoughts

Wurfing , precuperate , polkadodge : are you familiar with any of these words? - Or perhaps I should ask: are you familiar with any of these...

I've spotted another mistake in The CELTA Course Trainee Book by Scott Thornbury and Peter Watkins (see my blog for 4th July 2010). On ...

Since yesterday morning, a video has been doing the rounds both on YouTube and in the national news bulletins. You can watch it here . In it...

On page 156 of The CELTA Course Trainee Book (Cambridg e, 2007) by Scott Thornbury and Peter Watkins, the authors discuss the vowel and con...

On Monday 21st June I was watching Sky News HD. One of the newsreaders was reporting on the events organised at Stonehenge by druids, pagans...

I was wondering how Italians pronounce the term zoo : is it ˈdzɔo or dzɔ ? If you look this word up in a dictionary such as Lo Zingarelli (...

Last May I was walking down the lovely streets of the town I live in and I was given a leaflet in English advertising guided tours of the Et...