Kraut's English phonetic blog

John Maidment John Maidment in his blog of the 19th of January, 2012 , asks the question which term to use for the fact that a word may h...

I was asked by a friend of mine who the first person was to use virgules, slants, slashes for phonemes. I slashed flushed with shame and ha...

credit: www.garancedore.fr A young female Erasmus student from France attends one of my phonetics classes. Last week, the young lady appr...

Do you suffer from triskaidekaphobia or from paraskevidekatriaphobia ? Friggatriskaidekaphobia is just as bad. Triskaidekaphobia is prono...

When I listened to Tuesday's 'Essential Classics' presented on BBC Radio 3 by Sarah Walker, I heard her pronounce the name of th...

This is a section of the cover page of a seminar paper a student of mine handed in a few months ago. The typo is hilarious.

credit: BBC Here's the rest of it:  295 00:20:01,884 --> 00:20:04,013 TOM: Do you want to know about my survey or don't yo...

Here's the 3 rd part: credit: BBC 181 00:12:20,210 --> 00:12:22,742 BASIL: Oh, I wouldn't with you, Diana. God forbid. ...

Here's the second section from series 2, episode 1: credit: BBC 89 00:06:49,633 --> 00:06:51,744 DIANA: Will you speak your p...