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Belly Posted 18 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation
British vs American English in their accent
In words which have the phonetic sound / ae/ , I hear the real differences between American and British Accent.
If in British they spell that phonetic sound similar to /a/, American would do with a sound like /e/, isn't it?
Some words such as slang, man etc. I wonder why they use the /ae/ sound for this? Do they mean, you can use whatever /a/ or /e/ when spelling the words?
Today I took one of the exam implemented in American English, I spoke the word: slang with an /a/ to the examiner, he didn't understand at all. When I said: "synonym is: vernacular language", he asked me:" Isn't it slang /e/ ?" . So confused!
If in British they spell that phonetic sound similar to /a/, American would do with a sound like /e/, isn't it?
Some words such as slang, man etc. I wonder why they use the /ae/ sound for this? Do they mean, you can use whatever /a/ or /e/ when spelling the words?
Today I took one of the exam implemented in American English, I spoke the word: slang with an /a/ to the examiner, he didn't understand at all. When I said: "synonym is: vernacular language", he asked me:" Isn't it slang /e/ ?" . So confused!
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You are right. AE uses more /ae/ sounds than BrE. For example, the words 'laugh' or 'dance' are pronounced differently.
- You are right.
- AE uses more /ae/ sounds than BrE.
- For example, the words 'laugh' or 'dance' are pronounced differently.
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You are right. AE uses more /ae/ sounds than BrE. For example, the words 'laugh' or 'dance' are pronounced differently.
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Hi,
the symbol that looks like ae is actually one symbol, not two letters together, a + e. It's the IPA symbol used to represent a sound that is common in English.
Bet is pronounced with /e/.
Bat is pronounced with /ae/. It's not /a/, and not /e/ either. It's between those two sounds in the IPA chart. To try to do this sound, you can try to say /e/ while your mouth is a
the symbol that looks like ae is actually one symbol, not two letters together, a + e. It's the IPA symbol used to represent a sound that is common in English.
Bet is pronounced with /e/.
Bat is pronounced with /ae/. It's not /a/, and not /e/ either. It's between those two sounds in the IPA chart. To try to do this sound, you can try to say /e/ while your mouth is a
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Hi,
if Britishes and Americans you the same symbol /ae/, so how come they pronounce it so differently?
if Britishes and Americans you the same symbol /ae/, so how come they pronounce it so differently?
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It's a symbol for phonetic transcriptions and it represent a sound, not a letter. It's not a matter of pronouncing it differently, but a matter of using it or not. Americans use that sound in "bath" for example, but some people in the UK don't. So Americans say /bæ?/, and some people in the UK use another sound instead, so that transcription doesn't work to describe the way those British people t
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