Five down ... four to go ...

What's that about?

Students tell me stuff, then I let them read out some more stuff, then I grade their English.

What's this .... 2 o'clock candidate not appearing ...?

... and done for the day. Now to compile this test on English Historical Dialectology for tomorrow ...

Squeak should do one! Mancunian with US accent?

oh my oral phonetics exams sounds interesting.

I've done hundreds of them, it's really boring...they make the same mistakes all the time

Mistakes like what?

Germans? Can't pronounce voiced endings if their life depends on it. "Voict endinks". Also, "bat" sounds like "bet". Or "bad" like "bet".

The poor Jaegermonsters. They had that, Romanian AND fangs.

Or "whale" sounds like "vale." the TH is often a problem, too. Or they say things like "azzume."

I like to have them practice with sentences like "Wine comes from vine." Hours of fun.

Or: "Your flower beds are very pretty." You then stuff like "flower bets" and "flower bats."

MY flower bats are TOTALLY PRETTY! They're, like, these tiny fruitbats with flower wreaths around their necks?

Then there's also the "flower bads," used be people who have managed the art of the voiced word.final sound but not the vowel difference.

Oooh, evil gangs of tulips?

Nah, hyacinths and chrysanthemums. That's the second part of that sentence ...