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Thread #124681   Message #2758322
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
02-Nov-09 - 06:52 PM
Thread Name: BS: American English usages taking over Brit
Subject: RE: BS: American English usages taking over Brit
The important thing to avoid the kind of linguistic confusion Lox demonstrated there is to regularise spelling. That avoids the kind of problem that Lox demonstrated there. But spelling is only a rough guide to pronunciation as best in English.

Even where dictionaries include phonetic guidance about official pronunciation, that can have very little effect on how English speakers around the world (or indeed around England) may actually say them.