Tote vs. carry in AE - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Aside from formality informality registers, what is to "tote" that is not to "carry" to AE native speakers? Does "tote", unlike "carry", imply a certain way to hold or support something while moving?
pronunciation - How is æ supposed to be pronounced? - English . . . As I said, you have to distinguish English spelling from pronunciation There's no difference between the letters"ae" together and the "æ" ligature; and there's no rule for how to pronounce them, either -- every word is different The words encyclopædia, encyclopedia, and encyclopaedia are all pronounced the same, however you pronounce them I pronounce that vowel as i , myself
american english - Mobile vs. cellphone in AE - English Language . . . Anecdotally in California (San Francisco) I hear 'mobile phone' being used more than 'cell phone' However this could be biased - as a British English speaker the Americans I speak with may be adjusting their language to me
Interweaving A and E (e. g. , æ) in written words 2 In English, the ae ligature (Æ æ) is simply a typographic variant of ae, and generally does not signal anything different about pronunciation vs the separate letters; in American usage, words that use ae (or, historically, æ) are often (but not always) respelled to use e instead of ae See Wikipedia on Æ
vowels - Is the æ sound always same? - English Language Usage . . . There are multiple ways of pronouncing this phoneme The “pure” pronunciation is a near-open front unrounded vowel [æ] (as in cap and back), which as you can see on a vowel chart is directly between [ɛ] (Э) and [a] (А) Before a nasal consonant such as n , it is also pronounced as [eə] or [εə] (as in can and Mary) in many accents Furthermore, in English, unstressed vowels are