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Old 08-19-2004, 03:17 AM   #17
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Re: Vowel Pairs: 'ai', 'ei', etc

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Ayla Falloon wrote:
Sorry but im from New Zealand so i might pronounce different words/sounds differently then most people
<axe action=grind>This is why, in our increasingly globalized world, we need to be teaching basic phonetics in primary school! If everyone understood even just the basics (and there really isn't that much to it), and how to read International Phonetic Alphabet, we wouldn't have these kind of misunderstandings!</axe>

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