pronunciation

  • 21pronunciation — noun the pronunciation of difficult words Syn: accent, manner of speaking, speech, diction, delivery, elocution, intonation; articulation, enunciation, voicing, vocalization, sounding …

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  • 22pronunciation — pro•nun•ci•a•tion [[t]prəˌnʌn siˈeɪ ʃən[/t]] n. 1) phn the act, manner, or result of producing the sounds of speech, including articulation, stress, and intonation 2) phn a way of pronouncing a word, syllable, etc., that is accepted or considered …

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  • 23Pronunciation respelling for English — Pronunciation respelling is a type of notation system used to convey pronunciation of words, in a language which doesn t have a phonemic orthography (such as English). Respelling systems are meant to be easy for native readers to understand, but… …

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  • 24Pronunciation of Ancient Greek in teaching — Ancient Greek has been pronounced in various ways by those studying Ancient Greek literature in various times and places. This article covers those pronunciations; the modern scholarly reconstruction of its ancient pronunciation is covered in… …

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  • 25Pronunciation of English th — In English, the digraph 〈th〉 represents in most cases one of two different phonemes: the voiced dental fricative IPA|/ð/ (as in this ) and the voiceless dental fricative IPA|/θ/ ( thing ). More rarely, it can stand for IPA|/t/ ( Thailand ) or the …

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  • 26''PRONUNCIATION SYMBOLS — ə banana, collide, abut ˈə, ˌə humdrum, abut ə̄ as in one pronunciation used by r droppers for bird ə̇ two value symbol equival …

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  • 27Pronunciation Lexicon Specification — The Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) is a W3C Specification, which is designed to enable interoperable specification of pronunciation information for both speech recognition and speech synthesis engines within voice browsing applications …

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  • 28Pronunciation spelling — A pronunciation spelling of a word is a spelling intentionally different from the standard spelling, used to emphasize a particular pronunciation of the word. The spelling uses the regular spelling rules of the language. Most are nonce coinages,… …

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  • 29Pronunciation of "www" — WWW (or www) is an initialism for World Wide Web, most often styled in lowercase because it often appears as the leftmost component of domain names. In English, WWW is the longest possible three letter acronym to spell out, requiring nine… …

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  • 30Pronunciation of Hong Kong — The pronunciation of Hong Kong varies depending upon the language of the native speaker, be it Standard Cantonese or Standard Mandarin. The widespread usage of these languages has created many different ways to pronounce the Chinese characters 香港 …

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