Alex's phonetic thoughts

Halloween (or Hallowe'en) is fast approaching and people all over the world are gearing up for the event. Halloween originated in Europ...

On leafing through LPD3, I came across the word Highland and I noticed that Professor Wells syllabifies it as ˈhaɪl.ənd . I then checked th...

Last Monday, one of my students sent me an e-mail saying he couldn't place the accent of one of the female characters in the British com...

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...