The Sounds of Spoken English: A Manual of Ear Training for English Students (4th edition)

The question may here be raised whether we are to rest content with the standard speech as here defined, or should strive to improve it, for instance by aiming at simple vowels...

Language is constantly changing. The rate of change is not perhaps always the same, but change there always is. As we have seen above, the older generation and the younger do no...

The voiced [ʒ] standing alone between vowels is not common in English, being found only where _s_ is followed by a front vowel, or by _u_ which goes back to [juː]. Here the deve...

=38.= There is a short sound closely akin to it (in position, but not in sound), which we have in _but_, _much_, etc., and for which the sign is [ʌ]. The back of the tongue is r...

=53A.= It will have struck you that you have really been scanning the poem. Hitherto you may have done it by means of the signs – and ˘, taken from Latin prosody, where they sta...

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[35] The rule may also be stated thus: _r_ is only heard when a vowel follows in the same or the next word. "Vowel" must here be taken to include [j].

dais, ´deis dandelion, ´dændilaiən debauch, di´bɔːtʃ debonair, ´debənɛːə debris, ´debri decade, ´dekəd, ´dekeid decadence, ´dekədəns decease, di´sijs decorous, ´dekərəs, di´kɔːr...

Rajah, ´rɑːdʒə Raleigh, ´rɔːli, ´ræli Ralph, ´reif, ´rælf, ´rɑːlf Rayleigh, ´reili Reay, ´rei Rehan, ´reiən Renaissance, ri´neisəns Reuter, ´rɔitə Reynard, ´renɑːd Rheims, ´rijm...