Pronunciation

[wace]

Sorry,
try googling: GLOTTAL STOP Teaching English British Council BBC

[wace]

Originally Posted by wace

Sorry,
try googling: GLOTTAL STOP Teaching English British Council BBC

Cockney is most probably one of the 'certain accents' mentioned in the above site... so, I guess you were right after all...

[mara_ce]

Originally Posted by Ikramullah

/'ba:t.l/
What is dot used for in the phonetic symbols of bottle?
Why do we use dots in phonetic symbols?

A dot . is used to divide syllables, in accordance with the current recommendations of the International Phonetics Association (these may be read in the Journal of the International Phonetics Association, Vol. 19.2, (1989), pp. 67-80, and in the forthcoming IPA Handbook). However, this is not used where a stress mark ' or, occurs, as these are effectively also syllable division markers.
(English Pronouncing Dictionary, Daniel Jones)

[konungursvia]

I've also seen some people use /.l/ to denote the back /l/.

[Tdol]

Originally Posted by Raymott

No, the reason for the large letters is to make the phonetic descriptions readable. Sometimes when you copy material from Word, the software here just makes it whatever size it wants to. I couldn't be bothered getting it perfect.

You can have /smʊəl/ or /bɪg/ if you use IPA Typewriter (choose display for Web, not Word)