of his brother, Ivlivs. Peter on May 31, 2011 11:18 pm In proper English (i.e. English^2) clothes would be pronounced 'cloze', although a hypercorrection with 'th' in the middle has appeared over recent decades. Nonsense. The origin is Anglo-Saxon cla_as, "with 'th' in the middle". I don't think 1200 years or so counts as "recent decades"... It really requires a glottal stop, which like the ee-ee doubling, is very un-English. You haven't listed to many Englishmen talk, have you? The glottal (that's "glo'l") stop is probably one of the most common phones in the language It's the very definition of "English". I sentence you to watch My Fair Lady in penance! Unless we are going to type "f" for S's too Why would you do that? The long "s" is not an "f" (and was never used in Latin...) Juan C. on June 2, 2011 9:39 am For the Mexican Spanish words that have made it in to the English language; CHIPOTLE: Is pronounced chee-POHT-leh, not chih-POLE-tay. TORTILLAS: pronounced tohr-TEE-yas, not tore-TILL-ee-uhs (and not called shells) GUACAMOLE: wok-ah-MOH-leh, not gwok-uh-mow-lay Vladimir on June 2, 2011 8:37 pm Thanks for pointing these mistakes out, it may be helpful for some of us bb on June 3, 2011 3:45 pm 44. Realtor -- The word has three syllables. Say /RE-AL-TOR/, not /re-a-la-tor/. @Peter You are absolutely right. I keep forgetting how wide the "variation around normal" speech in the UK is. How in the world you fit so many dialects in such