see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. The pronunciation of the digraph ⟨wh⟩ in English has changed over time, and still varies today between...

pronounced differently from w Pronunciation of English ⟨wh⟩ wh-word, a name for an interrogative word such as where and when wh-movement, a syntactic phenomenon...

pronunciation, for example Grantham. Pronunciation English pronunciation Received Pronunciation Spelling pronunciation Non-native pronunciations of English...

are a variety of pronunciations in modern English and in historical forms of the language for words spelled with the letter ⟨a⟩. Most of these go back...

see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. The pronunciation of the phoneme /r/ in the English language has many variations in different dialects...

transcription delimiters. A pronunciation respelling for English is a notation used to convey the pronunciation of words in the English language, which do not...

delimiters. Received Pronunciation (RP) is the accent traditionally regarded as the standard and most prestigious form of spoken British English. For over a century...

delimiters. English phonology is the system of speech sounds used in spoken English. Like many other languages, English has wide variation in pronunciation, both...

pronunciation represents a divergent outcome – for details see Pronunciation of English ⟨wh⟩. The word is cognate with Latin quis and Greek ποιός. "Who"...

original pronunciation of the digraph up until Early Modern English when the /ɡ/ sound was lost in most words, giving /ŋ/ a phonemic status in English. Another...

(by her), or he gets seen (by her). Both yes–no questions and wh-questions in English are mostly formed using subject–auxiliary inversion (Am I going...

dialects, of this syllable-initial /h/, either alone or in the cluster /hj/. (For the cluster /hw/ and its reduction, see Pronunciation of English ⟨wh⟩.) H-dropping...

British English. Specifically, it blended features from both prestigious coastal Northeastern American English and from Received Pronunciation, the standard...

) the pronunciation used among almost all speakers regardless of geography is /h/. For details, see Pronunciation of English ⟨wh⟩. In Māori, ⟨wh⟩ represents...

used to write the languages of Europe. English alphabet A Received Pronunciation British English speaker reciting the English alphabet Problems playing...

from Middle English to Early Modern English was not just a matter of changes of vocabulary or pronunciation; a new era in the history of English was beginning...

The English interrogative words (also known as "wh words" or "wh forms") are words in English with a central role in forming interrogative phrases and...

sound they represent. The haitch pronunciation of h has spread in England, being used by approximately 24% of English people born since 1982, and polls...

The identity of the longest word in English depends on the definition of a word and of length. Words may be derived naturally from the language's roots...

transcription delimiters. The Great Vowel Shift was a series of changes in the pronunciation of the English language that took place primarily between 1400 and...

parts of the country. Speakers may also change their pronunciation and vocabulary, particularly towards Received Pronunciation and Standard English when...

Old English). Reduction to /w/, a development that has affected the speech of the great majority of English speakers, causing them to pronounce ⟨wh-⟩ the...

Modern English spelling, although pronunciation has changed considerably since that time. Middle English was succeeded in England by Early Modern English, which...

– and the spelling change from ⟨hw⟩ to ⟨wh⟩ in Middle English. The unusual pronunciation versus spelling of who is because the vowel was formerly /aː/...

documentation of the pronunciation of /r/ appeared a century later, in 1740, when the British author of a primer for French students of English said that...

Old English (Englisċ, pronounced [ˈeŋɡliʃ]), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and...

position, and the preposition is left behind. P-stranding from wh-movement is observed in English and Scandinavian languages. The more common alternative is...

the historical loss of /w/ in such words as who and write, see pronunciation of wh and reduction of /wr/. Old and Middle English /r/ was historically...

debuccalization. The pronunciation that it results in is called glottalization. Apparently, glottal reinforcement, which is quite common in English, is a stage...

Received Pronunciation are treated differently in different varieties of North American English. As shown in the table below, in Canadian English, all of them...