verb
- (intransitive, cricket) To deliver googlies.
- (intransitive, cricket) To move as a ball in a googly.
- (transitive) To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.
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Somebody told me today that these two are homophones. You must be kidding me. I consider myself pretty well-versed in many varieties of English, but would never consider them homophones. Is "ei" in "their" really not pronounced as /eɪ/ (like ate, fame), but just as flat /ɛ/?
Google uses American pronunciation.
One of the most noticeable differences in pronunciation between AmE and BrE is that when words like hot, cop, cot, etc. are pronounced,
the o is pronounced as "ah" in AmE while it is pronounced as ɒ in BrE.
Here is a complete guide to learn British pronunciation (phonetic alphabet included) by BBC.
If you would like to hear how words are pronounced in British English, you may want to use the British Macmillan Dictionary. (But don't confuse yourself with the American Macmillan Dictionary, there is a small difference between their URLs.)
I can confirm Google uses American Pronunciation.
I searched for lambaste and the American pronunciation [lam'beist] was used where in British English it's [laem'baest] — hated it, really put my nose out of joint.
Do you use google as a verb? As in: I will google it.
Today I found an interesting tool.
I know Google Translate, it is a very useful tool. But today I searched in Google for "querying pronunciation" (my mother tongue is Brazilian Portuguese, and I'm improving my English).
If you search for "<anything> pronunciation", Google will show a box where you can listen the word, and while listening you will see lip/tongue movements, you can listen also in slow motion, and the best feature I see: a "Practice" button. Clicking, it will record your voice speaking the word and it will say if you said correctly, and if not, it will give clues like "it looks you said xxx instead" or "Good Job".
I want to ask what you think about this tool. Is it suggesting things correctly? Is it an ok tool to help on listening?