Tag: international phonetic alphabet
International Phonetic Alphabet and Phonemic Alphabets
/gɛt jɔː ʃwɑː ɒn/ Have you ever seen something that looks like the Roman Alphabet but then it has some extra dots, symbols and letters you have never seen before? Does it follow other words and come after vocabulary (usually)? International Phonetic Alphabet If you answered yes to these questions, then you have most likely…
Great Vowel Shift
Have you ever wondered why English pronunciation is so difficult? Why are words written one way but pronounced in another? In addition to English’s bastard origins, there was a great event over a couple of centuries of extreme linguistic and phonological importance called the Great Vowel Shift. Questions, questions? So what is this Great Vowel…
