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Luke Nicholson

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Want to teach English pronunciation more confidently? SCEP at UCL blends theory and practice to boost your skills: ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences…

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In Belfast English (like Scottish English), words like "horse" and "hoarse" usually sound different. The lexical sets are NORTH and FORCE. I enjoyed noticing these vowels while in Belfast (because the phonemic distinction doesn't exist in my accent).

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I noticed lots of TH-dropping in Belfast English – even in the word "that" when stressed. In the word "anything", the [θ] turned into [h]. This is the end of my Belfast posts!

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When "rather" means "preferably" or "quite", it's stressed on the 1st syllable. However, if you place the primary stress on the 2nd syllable, another meaning of this word is expressed. Do you know what it is?

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Do surnames like "McCabe", "McCain", and "McCall" have one "c" [k] sound or two? Well, usually one of the [k] sounds is deleted so the first element is pronounced [mə] rather than [mək].

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In one of the writing systems for Hmong, letters like <s> and <v> in syllable-final position represent tones rather than consonants. When approaching a new language, understand that the spelling-to-sound correspondence may be different compared to other languages you speak!

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A great example of how the spelling–sound relationship is different in different languages. One of the writing systems of the Hmong languages has letters like <s> and <v>. These represent tones at the end of a word, not consonants!