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It seems that American and British English pronunciation keys use some symbols differently. The British English pronunciation key doesn't seem to use the symbol "ε".
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example:
The word "let" in a British English dictionary is transcribed as "/let/" instead of "/lεt/". Is it because the "ε" sound does not occur in British English?
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you always pronunce this letter even if you don't want to. but i don't know why sopme dictionaries write this letter but some do not
I think that the symbol ε has by and large disappeared- this IPA typwriter doesn't display it: IPA Typewriter
Don't the words "make" and "late" sound different in American and Britsh English?
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American English:
/mek/
/let/
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British English:
/meIk/
/leIt/
In British English, you will sometimes hear something like /mek/ as well when it is unstressed.
well, the truth I like British English, couse my cousin trained me to speak and she from london, but from wath series in the tv I was been speaking the two english and the pronunciation is really strange, so waht can i do to hide it?
I wouldn't worry about hiding an accent. The most important thing is to learn to speak and understand a language fluently. I don't know about folks in the UK, but if you were to chat with Americans with a sort of combination London/American accent, they'd find it interesting, if not charming. :-D I used to work with a man who was born and raised in the Netherlands, and moved to New Zealand as a teenager. He moved to the US while in his 30s, so his spoken English had the most delightful accent...a bizarre combination of Dutch/New Zealand/US pronunciations. To our Midwestern US ears, he sounded very cultured and "posh."Quote:
Originally Posted by *-*MiMi*-*
We talk of a Transatlantic accent for people who mix the two.