pronunciation
51Latin spelling and pronunciation — The Roman alphabet, or Latin alphabet, was adapted from the Old Italic alphabet, to represent the phonemes of the Latin language, which had in turn been borrowed from the Greek alphabet, adapted from the Phoenician alphabet. This article deals… …
52Spelling pronunciation — A spelling pronunciation is a pronunciation that, instead of reflecting the way the word was pronounced by previous generations of speakers, is a rendering in sound of the word s spelling. Spelling pronunciations compete, often effectively, with… …
53Proper Cantonese pronunciation — Jyutping is used as the pronunciation guide in this article From the 1980s onwards, the proper Cantonese pronunciation has been much promoted in Hong Kong, with the scholar Richard Ho Man Wui as the iconic campaigner. The very idea of proper… …
54Received Pronunciation — Britisches Englisch (British English, kurz BE oder BrE) ist die Bezeichnung für die Varietäten der englischen Sprache, wie sie auf den britischen Inseln (daher auch oft umgangssprachlich „Insel Englisch“ genannt) gesprochen und unter der… …
55Relaxed pronunciation — (also called condensed pronunciation or word slurs) is a phenomenon that happens when the syllables of common words are slurred together. It is almost always present in normal speech, in all natural languages (not in some constructed languages… …
56spelling pronunciation — noun : pronunciation of a word in which letters or syllables are given their usual sounds in analogous situations rather than the sounds heard among speakers who make greatest use of the word ˈwȯ(r)ˌsestə(r) instead of ˈwu̇stə(r) for Worcester,… …
57American and British English pronunciation differences — Differences in pronunciation between American English (AmE) and British English (BrE) can be divided into: * differences in accent (i.e. phoneme inventory and realisation ). Accents vary widely within AmE and within BrE, so the features… …
58Anglophone pronunciation of foreign languages — The following is a list of common non native pronunciations English speakers make when trying to speak foreign languages. Much of it is due to transfer of phonological rules from English to the new language as well as differences in grammar and… …
59English pronunciation of Greek letters — This table gives the common English pronunciation of Greek letters using the International Phonetic Alphabet (see .) It is the pronunciation of the ancient Greek names of the Greek letters using the English teaching pronunciation (traditionally… …
60Received Pronunciation — noun the approved pronunciation of British English; originally based on the King s English as spoken at public schools and at Oxford and Cambridge Universities (and widely accepted elsewhere in Britain); until recently it was the pronunciation of …
