Alex's phonetic thoughts

Another question from my students this week was why in English we say ba ' rometer , with stress on the second syllable, and not ' ...

Several of my Italian students this week were flabbergasted when I told them that the pronunciation of the famous district of south London, ...

While watching yesterday evening's Tony Blair interview with Andrew Marr on BBC2, I was slightly surprised by the way the presenter pro...

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...