Search:

Sorry, my bad. I wrongly assumed that you meant the ah as in "park" and it certainly is different from uh. Why is 'u' vague?


Aye, I ken that :-) one of my English teachers used to demonstrate...

Easy peasy - "lockbra" (here 'a' is the schwa). Where is it, by the way? Scotland? Ireland? IMHO someone with a thick Scottish accent might actually say "lochbra" where ch is like the ch of 'Bach' in...

This is because it comes from Scots, a form of English spoken in Lowland Scotland (some say it's a language related to English ;-) ) and it has its own spelling rules. Another example is Dalziel,...

Easy peasy - "lockbra" (here 'a' is the schwa). Where is it, by the way? Scotland? Ireland? IMHO someone with a thick Scottish accent might actually say "lochbra" where ch is like the ch of 'Bach' in...