Kraut's English phonetic blog

This is what I found in an advert by a German DIY company: credit: Bauhaus

credit: Harry Clarke "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allen Poe. As you know, not each and every short story...

One of my followers in a comment on my blog post of the 11th of March writes that he's heard Ken Livingstone pronounce angry as [ɛəŋgr...

When looking into one of my drawers I found a long-forgotten magnetic tape: I'm going to digitise it to preserve it. Does anybody h...

Two other variants are set off from General British: CGB and RGB. CGB stands for Conspicuous General British . Who uses this variant? ...

The new, eighth edition of Gimson's Pronunciation of English by Alan Cruttenden is available now. One of the eye-catchers will cer...

Routledge announced a new book: credit: Routledge The author is Dr. Adam Brown , senior lecturer at the Auckland Institute of Studies...

De vento et sole. Immitis Boreas placidusque ad sidera Phoebus Iurgia cum magno conseruere Iove, Quis prior inceptum peragat: mediumque ...

I considered myself lucky when I watched a 1965 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello with Laurence Olivier as Othello and Maggie Smi...