Nov 9, 2006 · The Oxford English Dictionary records that Elizabeth I pronounced often without the t, but it doesn't comment on her current successor! If you don't pronounce the e in often and …

Jun 2, 2005 · Because "often" is a short word which was tradionally pronounced differently than it is spelled, a portion of the population started pronouncing the word as it is spelled, rather than …

Feb 6, 2005 · Often this type of question is repeated because the question could be expressed in several ways.. I learned at school that we should not pronounce the "t" of the word often, but …

Jul 11, 2019 · Hello, everyone! I know about the differences in pronunciation of the word 'often'. I don't want to ask which one is correct. I want to ask you about how YOU personally pronounce …

May 15, 2008 · Hi! Reading this reminded me that the English TH sound, both voiceless and voiced, is rendered quite differently in different accents, including non natives. In German and …

Mar 31, 2014 · When I first learned the word "often", my teacher pronounced the "t" in it (she was American). But, recently, I was also told that the "t" shouldn't be pronounced in often. Are they …

Aug 7, 2018 · Hi, all, there was discussedphoneme [θ], which is hardly pronounceable for non-English speakers. There is somewhat more difficult to pronounce phoneme [ř] in Czech or …

Nov 9, 2006 · I pronounce 'often' as "awf-fin". I have never pronounced the t and am sure I had to learn the spelling at some point. In high school pronunciation class the teacher got angry when …

Feb 25, 2010 · One of the main differences is that many Spaniards often pronounce the "z" and the "c" before "i" or "e" like the "th" in "thin," while many Latin Americans pronounce it the …

Oct 5, 2007 · Basically you can not pronounce -s- before a consonant without adding a vocal before to the -s- and the natural vocal to add there, is the -e- since the -s- letter is called -ese-.