by Judy Ravin | Apr 19, 2012 | American Pronunciation, English Spelling
Perhaps the biggest complaint about English pronunciation is that words are not always pronounced the way they’re spelled. But while this is true, many words are pronounced the way they’re heard. This is called onomatopoeia. An example, for those of us who...
by Judy Ravin | Apr 19, 2012 | American Pronunciation, Phonetic Language
Can you imagine an English speaking world without spellcheck? Eoin O’Carroll of the Christian Science Monitor quotes George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright, in saying “the word ‘fish’ could legitimately be spelled ‘ghoti’, by using the...
