Once upon a time, I was asked at the place where I work part time to create a pronunciation guide to some common words.

HONOLULU (KHON2) – In the ahupuaʻa of Waipiʻo, which lies in the moku of ʻEwa here on Oʻahu, stands a dead-end street whose name could mean “to surround,” refer to the beginning of a song, or ...

As George Bernard Shaw once remarked, Britain and the United States are two nations divided by a common language. Where sound is placed in the mouth, pronunciation, social class/geographical region, ...