Kraut's English phonetic blog

Could anyone help me with the pronunciation of a line in R. Burns' poem To a Mouse? This is the stanza: credit: Stephen M Barnett c...

In last week's seminar one of my young professionals pronounced the word hypothesis as / ˌhaɪpəʊˈθiːsɪs /. Nice try and I'm shore ...

credit: CUP "Sounds interesting" is the title of a new book written by John C Wells to appear in October 2014. It will contain...

Question: Does everyone happen to have smoked salmon in the freezer or is it just my mother-in-law? credit: Ryan Lerch Reacti...

Let's take a closer look at the description of the KIT vowel in GIM 8 and concentrate on those variants which are considered to belong t...

Samuel Beckett credit: Roger Pic In the second act of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot , we are presented with these verbal symme...

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...