Kraut's English phonetic blog

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credit: Photosightfaces 1,000.00 metres/meters = 1 kilometre/kilometer; so far [sic], so good. But how does one pronounce 'kilomete...

Habemus papam? Not yet. The decisive question 1 has not yet been asked or answered. As a kind of preparation for this event, I've colle...

Stibium looks like this: credit: www.chemicalelements.com/elements/sb.html Stibium / 'stɪbiəm / is the Latin name for the chemic...

How does one pronounce above in General British? credit: net_efekt LPD3 offers /ə'bʌv/ and so do CEPD18 and ODP. The word is not...

The universe seen through a CV telescope The schwa is an interesting vowel resting in the centre of the vowel universe. It's also a ...

In my blog on interlingual quasi-homophones I mentioned three intra lingual examples: /ˈprɪntsəpl/ /ɡəˈrɪlə/ /henriˈetə/ The las...

Maybe I should apologise for not being an expert in ecclesiastical attire terminology: cassock, tippet, surplice, rochet 1 , etc. are all al...

You are certainly familiar with the concept of homophony and know loads of English homophonous words, phrases or even sentences such as ...