Alex's phonetic thoughts

I’ve just come back from a short trip to the Italian region of Umbria (pronounced ˈumbɾia in Italian but ˈʌmbriə in English), where I visi...

Here we go again! I've spotted another howler in my English-Italian Italian-English 2010 Hazon Garzanti Dictionary (cf. my blog for the...

Christmas is coming up soon and Tarquinia , the town I live in in Italy, is getting ready for the celebration of the coming of Christ. This ...

Last week I attended an introductory lecture given by a colleague of mine on how best to do medical research in English. The lecture was par...

On consulting my English-Italian Italian-English 2010 Hazon Garzanti Dictionary, I've realized that most of the pronunciations the autho...

This week I've been thinking of other words which have come into Italian from English and, as ever, I would like to discuss their pronun...