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What about pronouncing "the" with a stress, without pronouncing it like "thee"?

Why does Ancient Greek use different glyphs to distinguish length for some vowels (e and o) but not others (a, i, and u)?

My girlfriend's dad, who is age 66, white, and from central Michigan (not too far from Travis B.) has merged gulf/golf, pronounces ultra "all-tra," multiply like "malt-iply," and the rest. This has been preserved in the younger generation, as my girlfriend (age 29) does it too. All of us are cot/cau...

I was wondering if anyone has fleshed out Christian Vander’s “phonetic language,” Kobaïan. Currently, there’s a few dozen words that have an English translation, although I’m not certain how these translations came about. From what I can tell, Vander came up with the sounds organically while singing...