Author name: Ilana Shydlo

Common Words Pronounced Differently in British versus American English

  This post is the fourth in a series on the subject of differences between American and British English. For more information on this topic, please see the first three parts of the series: British Versus American “A” News About American “oo” and British “you” That You Never Knew The “oo” Sound: American Versus British

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Homophones: Words that Sound the Same, but are Spelled Differently

This is the second blog post in a three-part series on the relationships between the pronunciation of English words and their spellings. Follow the links for part one of the series on Silent Letters and part three on the Sound System of American English. As mentioned in the previous blog post, it often happens that the spelling of an English word

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Silent letters

This is the first blog post in a three-part series on the relationships between the pronunciation of English words and their spellings. Follow the links for part two of the series on Homophones and part three on the Sound System of American English. The English language is notable for having a large number of words with strange, unphonetic spelling. At times,

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