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But of course, that's not to say it doesn't happen. I'll have to start paying attention to announcements, people around me etc.

I don't recall hearing the 'l' in Walthamstow vocalised and I grew up down the road from there. At least not from locals.

Thanks Vinny. If we want to get technical, languages generally show a preference for syllable onsets over codas, where phonotactic...

#8 - While the syllable break in 'Chatham' may come between the 't' and 'h' in writing, this doesn't apply in speech. The 'th' is one sound...

I wanted to say Flemings but hesitated as I haven't heard it in a long while, so used 'people' instead.

I should add that I've always found people to be extremely friendly and many go out of their way to help.

On a recent trip to Flanders I asked people (in shops, for directions etc.) in Dutch if they spoke English or French. Just about everyone...

Thanks Vinny, very interesting. I wasn't familiar with N'Ko before this.

It wouldn't surprise me to hear either pronunciation of controversy in the UK.

-BY- definitely sounds American to this Brit.

Uighur script is based on Aramaic, but written downwards rather than across. It is still the principle script used for the language,...

But the Oxford World Dictionary gives different readings: tʃəˈriːzəʊ, tʃoˈriθo, -ˈriso....

'Kith and kin' - kin is used independently but I don't think kith is.

No. 25: Why so aggressive?

At school in London in the '70s and '80s, I was aware that either -ise or -ize could be used in many contexts but was never taught that one...