Kraut's English phonetic blog

Here's a list of sentences which form minimal pairs due to the use of a word used either in its strongform or its weakform. 1.  You me...

I'm looking for pairs of sentences differing by a word which has both a weakform and a strongform pronunciation. Here are two examples: ...

My daughter bought a sleeping bag recently from a British producer of equipment for climbers, expeditionists, mountaineers etc. The bag came...

credit: LOL phonology at facebook Adding a sound segment to a word without changing its meaning is one of the many English pas s times. ...

I'm sorry but I must get this off my chest. I've started reading a scholarly book on the phenomenon called foreign accent. In the b...

Listen to this short sound clip taken from a speech by the retired Major General Patrick Cordingley, who speaks about the Iraqi war. (So...

I've been skimming through Johan Storm's 1881 book Englische Philologie - Anleitung zum wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten . I. Die lebe...

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