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  • Asked on February 27, 2021 in Other.

    This is a Wikipedia page in america right now. This is very helpful for people who want to learn English.

    IPA chart for English dialects

    It lists all the lexical sets for English vowels for many major dialects of English, showing where individual dialects merge or distinguish within some of these sets.

    Why doesn’t IPA make the difference between hearing and spelling? What do individual

    words

    sound like in Reality? Is not organized by lexicon, just by the official spelling of the word and whatever person randomly decided to pronounce that word (with a geographical tag for that person to give you an idea of accent).

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  • Asked on February 27, 2021 in Other.

    Is ‘-ly’ a good English language? When arranging a phone number, one usually keeps the ‘-ly’, but informally or in regional dialects it is more common to drop the ‘-ly’. The prescribed grammar rule is to, except for, well, exceptions, form an adverb from the adjective by the suffix ‘-ly’. What are some ambiguities because the location of the word can make a word appear ambiguous?

    In some instances, “-ly” could arise, but these are rare, so there would be safe -semantically- to drop it.” (adjacent word)? As a speaker of English for 5 years, most people will call the ‘-ly’ dropping uninformed (because it is associated with non-standard speech). Maybe you want to change that a habit, but wouldn’t

    want to make that a habit.

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