Kraut's English phonetic blog

A colleague and friend of mine and yours truly enjoy the occasional pastime of looking for extraordinarily long English words, which we then...

Should you feel the urgent, irresistible drive to learn to pronounce English with a French accent (Yes, why not? Life is full of surprises!)...

credit: BBC A student of mine drew my attention to another instance of English ejectives. She found it in a clip produced by the Beeb wi...

I'm skimming Alexander J. Ellis's On Early English Pronunciation , part IV, for what the author calls clear and obscure forms ...

The term gradation and the concept behind it is fairly old. It dates back at least till the 19th c., when it was used as a synonym for ab...