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Any vowel letter can be pronounced as schwa and the pronunciation of a vowel letter can change depending on whether the syllable in which it occurs is stressed or not.
What happens in pronunciation when one word ends in a consonant sound and the next word begins with a vowel sound? Tim explains ...
Opinion Letter from the Editor: When should we help readers learn how to pronounce someone’s name? Published: Jan. 15, 2023, 7:37 a.m.
You might be wondering how a speaker comes to pronounce “no” as a triphthong, when other words with the same vowel (such as boat, cone, loaf and oak) are pronounced as diphthongs.
In the case of "bait"-like vowel sounds, Bray found some evidence among his US hockey players of a monophthongal pronunciation (minimal tongue movement), as one would expect in Canadian English ...