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  2. Phonetic notation of the American Heritage Dictionary

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    For the distinction between [ ], / / and , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (abbreviated AHD) uses a phonetic notation based on the Latin alphabet to transcribe the pronunciation of spoken English. It and similar respelling systems, such as those used by the Merriam ...

  3. Pronunciation respelling for English - Wikipedia

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    Pronunciation respelling systems for English have been developed primarily for use in dictionaries. They are used there because it is not possible to predict with certainty the sound of a written English word from its spelling or the spelling of a spoken English word from its sound. So readers looking up an unfamiliar word in a dictionary may ...

  4. Phonetic transcription - Wikipedia

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    For the distinction between [ ], / / and , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Phonetic transcription (also known as phonetic script or phonetic notation) is the visual representation of speech sounds (or phones) by means of symbols. The most common type of phonetic transcription uses a phonetic alphabet, such as the International ...

  5. Shavian alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Shaw Alphabet Edition of Androcles and the Lion, 1962.Paperback cover design by Germano Facetti. The Shavian alphabet (/ ˈ ʃ eɪ v i ə n / SHAY-vee-ən; [1] also known as the Shaw alphabet) is a constructed alphabet conceived as a way to provide simple, phonemic orthography for the English language to replace the inefficiencies and difficulties of conventional spelling using the Latin ...

  6. Pinyin - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. In official documents, it is referred to as the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet. Hanyu (汉语; 漢語) literally means ' Han language'—that is, the Chinese language—while pinyin literally means 'spelled sounds'. Pinyin is the official system used ...

  7. International Phonetic Alphabet chart - Wikipedia

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    For the distinction between [ ], / / and , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. The following is the chart of the International Phonetic Alphabet, a standardized system of phonetic symbols devised and maintained by the International Phonetic Association. It is not a complete list of all possible speech sounds in the world's ...

  8. Anglicisation (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Linguistics. In linguistics, anglicisation or anglicization is the practice of modifying foreign words, names, and phrases to make them easier to spell, pronounce or understand in English. [1][2] The term commonly refers to the respelling of foreign words or loan words in English, often to a more drastic degree than that implied in, for example ...

  9. Edit your personal dictionary in AOL Desktop Gold

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    Click the Settings button at the top. 3. Click Mail on the left side. 4. Click the Spell Check tab. 5. Click Add after typing in a word and it will be added to your personal dictionary. Desktop Gold automatically spell checks your spelling as you write an email. Learn how to improve the effectiveness of the spell check feature.