Alex's phonetic thoughts

On page 210 of John Wells' Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (2008), we find that the originally Italian surname da Vinci is transcrib...

As my readers will know, Justin Welby is to become the new Archbishop of Canterbury in March 2013. He's 56 years old and has been a bish...

The US election has given us the chance to hear how native speakers of English pronounce the word president . Usual pronunciations are ˈpre...

One of my phonetics students is curious about the pronunciation in American English of the word gelato , pronounced dʒeˈlato in standa...