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Announcement: Thank you and goodbye 0 Mon Jun 28, 2010 8:25 pm
Announcement: Ask Antimoon 0 Mon Mar 01, 2010 10:24 pm
"besides" Usage 4 Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:55 pm
"ing" pronounced as "ink" (pages: 1 2 3 ) 33 Wed Mar 21, 2007 12:11 pm
Old Topic, New Twist 5 Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:41 am
Pronunciation of Nguyen 7 Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:23 am
Mixed/Hybrid Accents 3 Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:16 am
Different or the Same? 1 Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:40 am
"grey" and "gray" in the United States. 7 Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:38 am
Interested in or into 4 Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:16 am
What time does the school start and end in the US and UK? (pages: 1 2 ) 20 Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:15 am
/@/ or /I/? 2 Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:49 pm
"bull" and "dull" (pages: 1 2 3 ) 39 Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:33 pm
U-RP (pages: 1 2 ) 16 Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:44 pm
Question about Californian shift and Canadian shift 4 Mon Mar 19, 2007 6:06 pm
Americans don't pronounce ''cot'' with an [O] sound/ (pages: 1 2 3 ) 30 Mon Mar 19, 2007 12:52 pm
The Use of 'And' 6 Mon Mar 19, 2007 7:59 am
It are ye 5 Mon Mar 19, 2007 5:39 am
Slang for whiskey? 5 Mon Mar 19, 2007 4:30 am
strange word 3 Mon Mar 19, 2007 12:47 am
/{r/ vs. /Er/ for "air", "stare" etc. 2 Sun Mar 18, 2007 8:06 pm
Analyse these accents 0 Sun Mar 18, 2007 7:37 pm
English online 13 Sun Mar 18, 2007 3:44 pm
time sequence 2 Sun Mar 18, 2007 3:36 pm
Washington and British Columbia English 6 Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:16 am
Do "one" and "none" rhyme for you? (pages: 1 2 ) 15 Sat Mar 17, 2007 8:49 pm
Pittsburg accent 14 Sat Mar 17, 2007 11:58 am
Silly english 12 Sat Mar 17, 2007 10:34 am
Lot-cloth split 2 Sat Mar 17, 2007 4:37 am
Weak vowel merger 10 Sat Mar 17, 2007 4:21 am
Question regarding prefix 4 Fri Mar 16, 2007 3:21 pm
English; surely the most Daedalian of all languages? 6 Fri Mar 16, 2007 12:48 pm
Gulf vs. Golf 6 Fri Mar 16, 2007 5:28 am
Yonder 13 Fri Mar 16, 2007 3:34 am
Pen and Pin 8 Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:18 am
They all speak English 12 Thu Mar 15, 2007 9:31 pm
Which one is more politically correct?? 9 Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:29 pm
which word does the attributive clause modify? 2 Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:08 pm
if a day 2 Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:07 pm
March Madness 1 Thu Mar 15, 2007 7:38 pm
euphemisms for ''to get drunk'' (pages: 1 2 3 ) 35 Thu Mar 15, 2007 5:41 pm
Schedule (pages: 1 2 3 ) 38 Thu Mar 15, 2007 5:18 pm
The Times (of London) should switch back to -ize again! (pages: 1 2 ) 22 Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:37 pm
Will English die out? (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ) 105 Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:28 pm
global english pronunciation (pages: 1 2 ) 18 Thu Mar 15, 2007 10:33 am
Confidence vs. self-assurance 3 Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:11 am
My Bonnie Lies Over the ocean 11 Wed Mar 14, 2007 2:02 pm
The meaning of Overdrive 4 Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:11 am
one and ones 2 Wed Mar 14, 2007 4:52 am
Realization of /o/ 8 Tue Mar 13, 2007 11:31 pm
Question for Josh Lalonde (and others) 13 Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:33 pm
Same or Distinct 9 Tue Mar 13, 2007 4:20 pm
Southern English (as natural as I please) 14 Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:22 pm
Why did YOU remove the homosexual-sayings-in-English thread? 3 Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:39 am
What's the point of learning Irish 2 Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:56 am
Salt (pages: 1 2 ) 21 Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:23 am
New Orleans accent 3 Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:24 pm
Are the tenses used correctly? 1 Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:45 pm
agreement 2 Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:34 pm
Language expert 8 Mon Mar 12, 2007 2:00 pm
agreement in these sentences 1 Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:19 am
Hispanic Accent 5 Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:17 am
Yod-dropping (pages: 1 2 ) 29 Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:06 am
Which is correct? 1 Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:17 am
hellooo 3 Sun Mar 11, 2007 8:55 pm
Using simile and metaphor 3 Sun Mar 11, 2007 5:32 pm
Did I write correctly? 1 Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:05 pm
"advertisement" 11 Sun Mar 11, 2007 9:23 am
You stupid git 2 Sun Mar 11, 2007 12:12 am
Irish Accent (pages: 1 2 ) 22 Sat Mar 10, 2007 7:17 pm
Is this American accent??? (pages: 1 2 ) 16 Sat Mar 10, 2007 3:40 pm
Catherine Tate Show accents 1 Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:15 am
the meaning of 0 Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:08 am
Words with /Qr/ in RP 10 Sat Mar 10, 2007 9:54 am
Windy-Wendy merger? (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 48 Sat Mar 10, 2007 8:03 am
Transfer(r)ing 1 Sat Mar 10, 2007 7:05 am
how to pronounce "something"? (pages: 1 2 ) 15 Sat Mar 10, 2007 3:58 am
Will vs. Shall (pages: 1 2 ) 20 Fri Mar 09, 2007 9:57 pm
from you to ya 4 Fri Mar 09, 2007 8:37 pm
HOW TO SAY THIS? 3 Fri Mar 09, 2007 12:38 pm
If, as you say 1 Fri Mar 09, 2007 7:33 am
harry 8 Fri Mar 09, 2007 3:00 am
Why learn english? (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 55 Thu Mar 08, 2007 5:34 pm
Is anything missing in this sentence? 8 Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:10 am
"dog" and "dogma" 5 Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:19 am
arsey Aussie (pages: 1 2 ) 24 Thu Mar 08, 2007 6:48 am
Help me pronounce this 5 Thu Mar 08, 2007 4:07 am
popular names of dogs (pages: 1 2 ) 28 Thu Mar 08, 2007 2:23 am
Glottalic airstream in English 5 Wed Mar 07, 2007 9:20 pm
Who is older? 3 Wed Mar 07, 2007 3:51 pm
how to correct 3 Wed Mar 07, 2007 10:58 am
Soft Skills 4 Wed Mar 07, 2007 2:19 am
Two Questions for Americans!!! 10 Tue Mar 06, 2007 7:22 pm
English a Fourth Branch of the Germanic Family? 1 Tue Mar 06, 2007 6:57 pm
possibility of / possibility to 5 Tue Mar 06, 2007 4:50 pm
my trouble 3 Tue Mar 06, 2007 10:44 am
-Ing meaning 5 Tue Mar 06, 2007 10:39 am
question (pages: 1 2 ) 24 Tue Mar 06, 2007 9:12 am
woild 13 Tue Mar 06, 2007 4:33 am
Hour-our-are 10 Tue Mar 06, 2007 3:26 am
Linking/Intrusive r (pages: 1 2 3 ) 43 Mon Mar 05, 2007 11:11 pm
Principal vs. principle 12 Mon Mar 05, 2007 11:02 pm
what is it about? 6 Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:29 pm
English 5 Mon Mar 05, 2007 9:48 pm
Which accent do I have? (pages: 1 2 ) 20 Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:11 pm
Who can correct my mistakes in the text? 4 Mon Mar 05, 2007 12:40 pm
Does this sentence make sense? 5 Mon Mar 05, 2007 9:27 am
NCVS on wheels 8 Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:11 am
Charleston accent 0 Mon Mar 05, 2007 6:00 am
screenshots 7 Mon Mar 05, 2007 2:28 am
what does this mean in English ? 11 Sun Mar 04, 2007 10:05 pm
word order 2 Sun Mar 04, 2007 7:40 pm
Difference 6 Sat Mar 03, 2007 5:35 pm
Record yourself speaking General American (pages: 1 2 ) 20 Sat Mar 03, 2007 3:42 pm
Chicano influences in California English (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 47 Sat Mar 03, 2007 3:40 pm
dvd to ipod 1 Sat Mar 03, 2007 8:44 am
screenshots 0 Sat Mar 03, 2007 7:13 am
Stranger still 4 Sat Mar 03, 2007 6:23 am
Real vs. reel 11 Sat Mar 03, 2007 2:40 am
butcher 4 Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:01 pm
"nearer" and "mirror" as well as "s (pages: 1 2 ) 16 Fri Mar 02, 2007 10:31 pm
Use apostrophes correctly - or else. (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 55 Fri Mar 02, 2007 7:17 pm
How do I write? 7 Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:34 pm
How should I say this? 5 Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:07 am
I have a question. 3 Fri Mar 02, 2007 10:14 am
stressed "or" (pages: 1 2 ) 20 Fri Mar 02, 2007 6:02 am
"Literature" (pages: 1 2 ) 23 Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:54 am
How are these verbs pronounced? 3 Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:27 pm
No condition 0 Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:17 pm
"juice" 10 Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:47 pm
Gotten (pages: 1 2 ) 29 Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:17 pm
Most annoying phrases in the English language 4 Thu Mar 01, 2007 4:38 pm
American perceptions 3 Thu Mar 01, 2007 4:33 pm
NCVS 4 Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:40 pm
linguistic register mixing 2 Thu Mar 01, 2007 2:20 pm
How to interpret this dictionary sentence? 9 Thu Mar 01, 2007 1:50 pm
Euro-English is particularly unattractive 1 Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:18 am
Syllabification of "windy". 7 Thu Mar 01, 2007 6:21 am
Syllabic l + suffix 3 Thu Mar 01, 2007 12:53 am
Non-rhotic and fern-fur-fir umerged 9 Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:09 pm
2 questions (pages: 1 2 ) 17 Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:01 pm
I have a question about the word ' pamphlet ' 1 Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:22 am
how to apply foe a job? 3 Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:52 am
Scots (pages: 1 2 ) 21 Wed Feb 28, 2007 7:03 am
How to shoot this ambiguity? 4 Wed Feb 28, 2007 6:01 am
Syllables in "three". 10 Wed Feb 28, 2007 5:58 am
Is this expression gramattically correct? 2 Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:10 am
I got a question? 6 Tue Feb 27, 2007 9:27 pm
I need meaning for this 6 Tue Feb 27, 2007 5:49 pm
1.5, plural? 14 Tue Feb 27, 2007 5:34 pm
is there a north/south linguistic divide in england? (pages: 1 2 ) 16 Tue Feb 27, 2007 2:25 pm
How to shoot this ambiguity? 2 Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:48 am
airline 5 Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:29 am
Have it be 3 Mon Feb 26, 2007 9:43 pm
mass, enhance, sample 2 Mon Feb 26, 2007 6:09 pm
Irish accent particulars. 9 Mon Feb 26, 2007 4:57 pm
what does "sucker" mean? (pages: 1 2 ) 16 Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:36 pm
Explain it to me, plz 3 Mon Feb 26, 2007 8:10 am
picking up an accent as a foreigner 2 Mon Feb 26, 2007 5:53 am
Bury (pages: 1 2 ) 24 Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:53 pm
Affricates with following r 11 Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:25 pm
L-vocalisation 11 Sun Feb 25, 2007 8:19 pm
"It's a deal!" 2 Sun Feb 25, 2007 7:15 pm
Expression 1 Sun Feb 25, 2007 2:58 pm
xsampa? 5 Sat Feb 24, 2007 7:37 pm
Words in -og (pages: 1 2 ) 25 Sat Feb 24, 2007 7:33 pm
International accent. (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 47 Fri Feb 23, 2007 8:28 pm
such a dumb question 1 Fri Feb 23, 2007 6:51 pm
I love this show..... 0 Fri Feb 23, 2007 5:02 am
huggy bear 4 Fri Feb 23, 2007 12:31 am
"curly" and "early" 12 Thu Feb 22, 2007 11:09 pm
simplifyed spelling experiment to accelerate literacy (pages: 1 2 ) 16 Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:56 pm
There is no subjunctive mood in English. (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 ) 88 Thu Feb 22, 2007 5:47 pm
put it in / into your portfolio 11 Thu Feb 22, 2007 3:21 pm
-ing stuff 4 Thu Feb 22, 2007 7:31 am
Florida Accent 4 Thu Feb 22, 2007 5:25 am
Brothers are last two to speak Cromarty fisher dialect 5 Thu Feb 22, 2007 4:36 am
Liz-accent sample for Damian (pages: 1 2 ) 17 Wed Feb 21, 2007 11:42 pm
what does "make it small" mean? 3 Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:47 pm
What is this sign _ called? 6 Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:20 pm
Listen to these two speakers and guess their nationality? (pages: 1 2 ) 21 Tue Feb 20, 2007 6:24 pm
will future in instructions 7 Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:46 pm
Transitional accents 4 Tue Feb 20, 2007 1:48 pm
A question for native English speakers!LEARN a 2nd LANGUAGE (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 ) 75 Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:43 am
I need to sound southern 8 Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:58 am
Stupidest 9 Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:21 pm
Marmalade 7 Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:47 pm
Layer vs. lair (pages: 1 2 ) 25 Mon Feb 19, 2007 3:04 am
phrases 4 Sun Feb 18, 2007 10:43 pm
Pronunciation of 'r' in Scotland and northern England 9 Sun Feb 18, 2007 6:59 pm
"library" 11 Sun Feb 18, 2007 2:21 pm
have you seen this passion of christ clip yet? 9 Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:09 pm
smoke alarm and smoke detector 2 Sun Feb 18, 2007 4:10 am
"water" (pages: 1 2 ) 22 Sat Feb 17, 2007 1:43 pm
And '03 model car. (pages: 1 2 ) 18 Sat Feb 17, 2007 1:21 pm
a (metric) unit (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 ... 19 20 21 22 23 ) 332 Sat Feb 17, 2007 9:22 am
What are people from Ireland? (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 55 Fri Feb 16, 2007 3:44 pm
Comparison between need+to vs need+to+be 6 Fri Feb 16, 2007 4:30 am
English 4 Thu Feb 15, 2007 8:59 am
Wow I haven't been here for over 3 years. (pages: 1 2 ) 27 Wed Feb 14, 2007 8:03 pm
a conversation 8 Wed Feb 14, 2007 7:48 pm
"Is" or "are"? (pages: 1 2 ) 20 Wed Feb 14, 2007 8:32 am
My Accent Sample 3 years later (By Ashley) 13 Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:34 pm
future conditionals 9 Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:12 pm
How to define the future and the past? (pages: 1 2 3 ) 37 Tue Feb 13, 2007 3:01 pm
Race, US: class, UK (pages: 1 2 3 ) 32 Tue Feb 13, 2007 12:14 pm
If it may rain tomorrow, people should take their umbrellas 13 Tue Feb 13, 2007 12:28 am
Give me a call in English 3 Mon Feb 12, 2007 11:49 pm
Idioms, idioms 1 Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:50 pm
english 4 Mon Feb 12, 2007 10:52 am
North Dakota vs Western accent 3 Mon Feb 12, 2007 12:42 am
The Next World (the next twenty years) (pages: 1 2 ) 29 Sun Feb 11, 2007 2:45 pm
My new accent sample for Damian 11 Sun Feb 11, 2007 12:35 pm
Listening skills (for non-native speakers) 0 Sun Feb 11, 2007 10:43 am
Reversing mergers (pages: 1 2 3 ) 33 Sun Feb 11, 2007 6:00 am
Oscar Wilde: British or Irish? (pages: 1 2 3 ) 41 Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:22 am
I wrote him (pages: 1 2 ) 16 Sun Feb 11, 2007 4:43 am
How should I distinguish this? 1 Sat Feb 10, 2007 7:56 am
Present for John 3 Sat Feb 10, 2007 7:38 am
What's "rego" mean? 2 Sat Feb 10, 2007 5:30 am
Is this a feature in Nebraska? 1 Sat Feb 10, 2007 5:07 am
Grab your coat, you've pulled. 2 Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:56 am
George W Bush's accent (pages: 1 2 3 ) 36 Fri Feb 09, 2007 11:52 pm
translation into Latin AmSp and AmE! (pages: 1 2 3 ) 31 Fri Feb 09, 2007 3:12 pm
May I say that 4 Fri Feb 09, 2007 2:58 pm
Features of Boston Brahmin 2 Fri Feb 09, 2007 9:42 am
What ya think better? English or Australian accent? (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 ) 60 Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:51 am
Brennus where art thou? (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 ) 79 Thu Feb 08, 2007 11:27 pm
Setting one's own standards (pages: 1 2 ) 28 Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:58 pm
British accent sigts 1 Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:06 pm
differences between "painter" and "graphic ar 3 Thu Feb 08, 2007 5:24 am
What is a Yankee? (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ) 98 Wed Feb 07, 2007 5:05 pm
Failure 3 Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:33 pm
"drawers" 14 Wed Feb 07, 2007 8:57 am
The most people live in China. 3 Tue Feb 06, 2007 9:52 pm
POEM 3 Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:21 pm
"pwn" and "pwned" (pages: 1 2 ) 26 Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:19 pm
Is this wrong? 0 Tue Feb 06, 2007 4:05 am
why Mr? (pages: 1 2 ) 16 Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:10 am
Fisher's price 6 Mon Feb 05, 2007 4:57 am
I play THE piano or I play piano? 11 Mon Feb 05, 2007 2:26 am
Conditional Sentences Part II 4 Mon Feb 05, 2007 1:45 am
American Slang 11 Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:34 pm
Ky, Kpw 1 Sun Feb 04, 2007 4:22 pm
Pass Motion 10 Sun Feb 04, 2007 2:46 pm
Spoken Standard? 10 Sat Feb 03, 2007 10:58 am
less young than 8 Sat Feb 03, 2007 10:54 am
Status of English language speakers 4 Sat Feb 03, 2007 10:53 am
No Pun Intended 5 Sat Feb 03, 2007 9:57 am
What is a troll? 2 Fri Feb 02, 2007 6:57 pm
a few question about "impress" "concern&quo 1 Fri Feb 02, 2007 2:00 pm
"christmas break" 1 Thu Feb 01, 2007 12:33 pm
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