There are a variety of pronunciations in Modern English and in historical forms of the language for words spelled with the letter ⟨a⟩. Most of these go...
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see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. The pronunciation of the digraph ⟨wh⟩ in English has changed over time, and still varies today between...
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Pronunciation English pronunciation Received Pronunciation Spelling pronunciation Non-native pronunciations of English English orthography Thorn Eth The...
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delimiters. A pronunciation respelling for English is a notation used to convey the pronunciation of words in the English language, which do not have a phonemic...
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see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. The pronunciation of the phoneme /r/ in the English language has many variations in different dialects...
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§ Brackets and transcription delimiters. Received Pronunciation (RP) is the accent of British English regarded as the standard one, carrying the highest...
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delimiters. English phonology is the system of speech sounds used in spoken English. Like many other languages, English has wide variation in pronunciation, both...
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delimiters. Non-native pronunciations of English result from the common linguistic phenomenon in which non-native speakers of any language tend to transfer...
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original pronunciation of the digraph up until Early Modern English when the /ɡ/ sound was lost in most words, giving /ŋ/ a phonemic status in English. Another...
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Pronunciation (Pronunciation) is the way in which a word or a language is spoken. This may refer to generally agreed-upon sequences of sounds used in speaking...
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T (redirect from Pronunciation of English T)
instead of the intended characters. T, or t, is the twentieth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other...
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and transcription delimiters. Differences in pronunciation between American English (AmE) and British English (BrE) can be divided into differences in accent...
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English is a West Germanic language that developed in early medieval England and has since become a global lingua franca. The namesake of the language...
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The traditional English pronunciation of Latin, and Classical Greek words borrowed through Latin, is the way the Latin language was traditionally pronounced...
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The pronunciation of GIF, an acronym for the Graphics Interchange Format, has been disputed since the 1990s. Popularly rendered in English as a one-syllable...
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for "Scottish Standard English" is en-scotland. In addition to distinct pronunciation, grammar and expressions, Scottish English has distinctive vocabulary...
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Pronunciation (also called "the King's English", "Oxford English" and "BBC English"), that is essentially region-less. It derives from a mixture of the...
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and phonetics of their mother tongue in English speech. For more details on this, see non-native pronunciations of English. Primary English speakers show...
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C (redirect from Pronunciation of English c)
C, or c, is the third letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide...
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Greek alphabet (redirect from English pronunciation of Greek letters)
with their modern Greek pronunciations of [θ], [f], and [x] ~ [ç] respectively, because these sounds are easier for English speakers to distinguish from...
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English number words include numerals and various words derived from them, as well as a large number of words borrowed from other languages. Cardinal...
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used to write the languages of Europe. English alphabet A Received Pronunciation British English speaker reciting the English alphabet Problems playing...
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This is found to a great extent primarily in pronunciation and vocabulary. Variants of the English language also exist in both of these countries (e...
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On early English pronunciation: with especial reference to Shakspere [sic] and Chaucer, containing an investigation of the correspondence of writing with...
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Great Vowel Shift (redirect from Great English Vowel Shift)
transcription delimiters. The Great Vowel Shift was a series of pronunciation changes in the vowels of the English language that took place primarily between the...
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The change from Middle English to Early Modern English affected much more than just vocabulary and pronunciation. Middle English underwent significant...
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regional varieties of English: See Pronunciation respelling for English for phonetic transcriptions used in different dictionaries. This is a compromise IPA...
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Latin phonology and orthography (redirect from Pronunciation of Latin)
teaching of Latin, the Italian-influenced ecclesiastical pronunciation as used by the Catholic church is still in common use. The Traditional English pronunciation...
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less central than in modern Received Pronunciation (RP). /ɑ/ varies between back [ɑ] and central [ɑ̈]. The class of tense pure vowels manifests in how GA...
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fundamentally different meanings). Some letters in English provide information about the pronunciation of other letters in the word. Rollings (2004) uses...
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