Explore the historical context of vowel symbols in British English, which were originally selected to represent an ...

Episode 7 / 08 Feb 2023 . This is the seventh of seven short vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English.

This results in 46 distinct letters, almost double the number used in the English alphabet. The phonology of Japanese is mercifully quite simple. If we were to use a syllabic writing system for ...

How English sounds to foreigners: Multilingual man's video revealing what the language sounds like to people who don't speak it goes viral. TikToker shares what English language sounds like to non ...

Swear words lack the consonant sounds l, r, w and y across several languages – including Chinese, English and Spanish, according to a new study from researchers at Royal Holloway, University of ...