John Wells’s phonetic blog

Peter Roach wrote I wonder if you noticed the interview on TV yesterday on Channel 4 News with Christine LaGarde, French Finance Minister. M...

Masaki Taniguchi tells me he was on a train in Japan recently when he got talking, mostly in English, to a Swiss lady who was touring Japan ...

In the front quad at UCL there are two ginkgo trees, which every autumn shed their distinctive leaves on the ground. According to a Wikipedi...

Anyone who studies phonetics at a British university, and no doubt in many other countries too, has to learn to recoɡnize and produce a numb...

There are some emails that I receive that ask simple questions for which the answers are complicated. Hello Sir I am k***** [name removed]. ...

Mark Huckvale saw that I had been unable to get his Unicode Phonetic Keyboard to work in Vista Home Premium (blog, two days ago). But the fa...

Intrigued by Justin Watkins ’s posting on Facebook of a video clip of himself jumping into a pool under the headline “cenote plunge”, I look...