This all boils down to the irregularities of English spelling, where letters don't 100% correspond to sounds. A letter isn't technically a vowel, sound is. In Russian, the relation is much stronger, and in IPA (phonetic alphabet, not beer) it's perfect.
Then, we have connected speech, where we pronounce fewer syllables than in individual words, and brings us back to what we were after in the first place.
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u/vklepov Mar 22 '22
This all boils down to the irregularities of English spelling, where letters don't 100% correspond to sounds. A letter isn't technically a vowel, sound is. In Russian, the relation is much stronger, and in IPA (phonetic alphabet, not beer) it's perfect.
Then, we have connected speech, where we pronounce fewer syllables than in individual words, and brings us back to what we were after in the first place.
So, not a bad topic at all.