In the summer of 1859, a year before his election to the U.S. presidency, Abraham Lincoln received a curious letter in the ...

We are revisiting the pronunciations of short and long vowel sounds  /r/ and /r:/, as we have in ‘chip’ and ‘cheap’.

I would like to befuddle you with news about [U] and three diphthongs. [Y] is used to represent /u/. Sometimes it is a ...

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