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"Tom o' Bedlam" is the title of an anonymous poem in the "mad song" genre, written in the voice of a homeless "Bedlamite". The poem was probably composed at the beginning of the 17th century. In How to Read and Why Harold Bloom called it "the greatest anonymous lyric in the [English] language." [1]
Pronunciation Note Respelling IPA; Aberdeen, Washington: AB-ər-deen / ˈ æ b ər d iː n / Also the city in Maryland Abiquiú, New Mexico: AB-ə-kew / ˈ æ b ə k juː / Regular in Spanish Acequia, Idaho: ə-SEE-kwə / ə ˈ s iː k w ə / Achilles, Kansas: ə-KIL-iss / ə ˈ k ɪ l ɪ s / Advance, North Carolina: AD-vanss / ˈ æ d v æ n s ...
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs , which are written differently but pronounced the same).
CMUdict provides a mapping orthographic/phonetic for English words in their North American pronunciations. It is commonly used to generate representations for speech recognition (ASR), e.g. the CMU Sphinx system, and speech synthesis (TTS), e.g. the Festival system.
The George R. Moscone Convention Center [5] (/ m ɒ s ˈ k oʊ n i /), popularly known as the Moscone Center, is the largest convention and exhibition complex in San Francisco, California, United States.
If the pronunciation in a specific accent is desired, square brackets may be used, perhaps with a link to IPA chart for English dialects, which describes several national standards, or with a comment that the pronunciation is General American, Received Pronunciation, Australian English, etc. Local pronunciations are of particular interest in ...
The English Pronouncing Dictionary (EPD) was created by the British phonetician Daniel Jones and was first published in 1917. [1] It originally comprised over 50,000 headwords listed in their spelling form, each of which was given one or more pronunciations transcribed using a set of phonemic symbols based on a standard accent.
★ Hedges (2017) acknowledges that the two pronunciations marked by this star are discrepancies of her latent class analysis, since they conflict with Vaux (2004)'s surveys. Conversely, the surveys show that /æ/ is the much more common vowel for pajamas in the West, and /ɔɪ/ and /ɔj/ are in fact both common variants for lawyer in the Midland.