Do you pronounce ''world'' with one or two syllables?

Im a disaster with Xsampa could you give examples with words?

In English, when [l] comes at the end of a syllable (as in "world", "bell", "ball", etc), it is pronounced more in the back of the throat than a normal [l]. Does Dutch do this (in the world "staal", for example)?

Well,when you pronounce the L in staal,your tongue touches your upper teeth. And its more of a 'ulll" sound.

Come to think of it, you allways touch your teeth with your tongue with a Dutch L ;)

Thanks.

No problem.

Yeah, as you could probably tell, the "Kirk" on the previous page was not me.

<<A similar thing happens the word ''parrot'', it ends in ''ot'', so some people mistake themselves as pronouncing it to rhyme with ''rot'', when in reality they use a schwa sound in the word as it's usually pronounced.>>

Maybe, but Don, as others have commented, you're making some assumptions based on only a certain set of English dialects in your statements. I've actually never heard "parrot" that way, for instance--here it's universally /pErIt/, which is how I pronounce it.

I myself pronounce "parrot" as /"perIt/ --> ["p_he.r\I?], which differs from Kirk in that the /e/ - /E/ - /{/ neutralization before /r/ in this case favors /e/ rather than /E/.

And yes, Don, you seem to very, very often make many assumptions about English in general based on a very limited set of dialects, many of which, say, many North Americans are not likely to be familiar with.

''And yes, Don, you seem to very, very often make many assumptions about English in general based on a very limited set of dialects, many of which, say, many North Americans are not likely to be familiar with.''

No I don't. When did I ever say that everyone pronounces ''world'' as two syllables? I don't remember ever saying that. You seem to think that I'm saying that everyone has the same accent as me. I'm not saying that at all. I know that there are some dialectal difference in the pronunciations of certain words.

For example:

I pronounce ''lever'' as /liv@`/, but I'm not saying that everyone pronounces it that way. I know that there are some people that say /lEv@`/.

Don, I was speaking in general, not just with respect to the individual case of the word "world". For example, in the case of "nappy" versus "diaper", and like.