I don't have access to audio from Oxford Dictionary. Any one has?Casiopea said:Here's a related poll:
http://www.antimoon.com/forum/posts/4675.htm
To me, "flower" and "flour" are homophones. I can't agree with the CALD (Cambridge . . . ) on this one. Is this a case of spelling makes pronunication? Seems like it. :up:
You are a moderator why don't you add one for yourself? :-DCasiopea said:Hold on. I'm Canadian. Which speaker group should I choose? (agh)
Casiopea, did you delete one of my posts based on your belief that they were the same? Because the pictures were clearly different. Not to mention the difference in my explanation (British vs American).This message has been deleted by Casiopea. Reason: duplicate
YTG said:They were on the same line. Now they aren't and it is hard to read.
YTG said:As for the British, they don't even pronouce the 'w' so it is like flaa-er.
Casiopea said:Hold on. I'm Canadian. Which speaker group should I choose? (agh)
It's been restored. ;-)YTG said:Casiopea, did you delete one of my posts . . . .
Well, look at my post that just been put back. It doesn't give any clue it was deleted and it was put back. How can that be done? A hidden function of vBulletin for admins/moderators?tdol said:YTG, I have edited the post and put them back on the same line. It said that you had edited the post, other than that it wasn't touched AFAIK. Maybe the line breaks disappeared then, though I can't say why.
Yes, but it can't creat exactly as what I created by the pictures.tdol said:PS Have you seen this site? http://users.otenet.gr/~petermac/call/pron/type.html
:-D
I am not sure what you mean here. What word can be prounced as 'flarze'? With the 'z' sound? Flowers? With 'z' in the middle?tdol said:Only a very small group say 'flarze' nowadays, just as only a very few say 'hice' for 'house'. That pronunciation wouldn't, in all probability, be considered RP anymore, but resticted to very small upper class circles, IMO. :lol:
What English do you speak? British, American, Australian or Canadian?JJM Ballantyne said:For all intensive purposes, "flour" and "flower" are homophones.
YTG said:They are not identical.
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Notice the dot (.) in flower. It has longer sound at that point which makes
the sound of flower as 2 syllables but only 1 syllable for the sound of flour.
It's like:
flower: ฟลาว-เอ้อ
flour: ฟลาอาว (ฟลา-อาว without any pause)
That's British pronounciation.
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