Kraut's English phonetic blog

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credit: Kotomicreations I accept JWL's challenge (see my blog of the 23rd of December ) and transcribe Fiona Bruce's signing-o...

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John Maidment in his blog of the 14th of December reports on a rare type of assimilation illustrated by examples such as something as / sʌn...

Students of my phonetics courses are requested to take an IPA (= Individual Pronunciation Assessment) test. One of the test sentences runs ...

My blog has exceeded 100,000 pageviews. Its first entry dates back to the 4th of September, 2010. People from 175 countries have visited thi...

During the first weeks of a new semester I ask my phonetics students (aka young professionals) to come and see me for a diagnostic pron t...

I've been listening to another broadcast of BBC Radio Four's series Four Thought , this time a talk given by Gerard Darby, freelance...

Correption Leaving aside some extinct meanings correption according to OED is a term used to describe "[s]hortening in grammar"...