The Americans went with a pronunciation matching what would be expected from an English word spelled that way, and the Brits went with something closer to the pronunciation in the language we got ...

English can be a very silly language, with many words looking nothing like the way they should be said. There are also a lot of words that so many people say slightly wrong, that often people are ...

Writing with sound symbols You can use these symbols to write out the pronunciation of words and in many dictionaries for English learners you will see the pronunciation written out. To show that ...