John Wells’s phonetic blog

In another part of the social media cybersphere Karen Chung, commenting on a picture of fractious children comforted by Santa with the capt...

How would you read this notice out loud? What intonation pattern(s) would you use? Where would you put intonation breaks? Which words would...

…which (that is to say, the Latin stress rule) brings us to the name Salome , borne inter alia by John the Baptist’s nemesis in gory Christ...

And a happy new year to all of you too! It’s many months now since we last discussed the Latin stress rule and its consequences in English....

On the BBC2 TV antiques show Flog It! a member of the public had brought in a silver-plated object she owned and that she was hoping to a...

Talking of confusing non-rhotic respellings (yesterday’s blog and comments), yesterday’s Independent newspaper had an interesting take on t...

It’s some time since I last discussed Montserratian Creole English (see 21 Nov 2006 here ) in this blog. But yesterday a news report on...