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  2. List of irregularly spelled English names - Wikipedia

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    This is a set of lists of English personal and place names having spellings that are counterintuitive to their pronunciation because the spelling does not accord with conventional pronunciation associations.

  3. Pronunciation - Wikipedia

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    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 a given word or language in a specific dialect ("correct" or "standard" pronunciation) or simply the way a particular individual speaks a word or language.

  4. Spelling pronunciation - Wikipedia

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    A spelling pronunciation is the pronunciation of a word according to its spelling when this differs from a longstanding standard or traditional pronunciation. Words that are spelled with letters that were never pronounced or that were not pronounced for many generations or even hundreds of years have increasingly been pronounced as written, especially since the arrival of mandatory schooling ...

  5. Plinth (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Plinth may refer to: Plinth, a base especially for statues, steles, etc. Plinth (hieroglyph), an Egyptian language hieroglyph; Plinth Peak, of the Cascade Volcanic Arc

  6. How do you pronounce ‘Nvidia’? Here’s how to say the $3 ...

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    So, what is the correct way to pronounce Nvidia? According to its website, Nvidia is pronounced “en-VID-eeyah,” not NUH-vid-eeyah, as many have called it. Where did the 'Nvidia' name come from?

  7. Spelling - Wikipedia

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    Spelling is a set of conventions for written language regarding how graphemes should correspond to the sounds of spoken language. [1] Spelling is one of the elements of orthography, and highly standardized spelling is a prescriptive element.

  8. List of English words without rhymes - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of English words without rhymes, called refractory rhymes—that is, a list of words in the English language that rhyme with no other English word. . The word "rhyme" here is used in the strict sense, called a perfect rhyme, that the words are pronounced the same from the vowel of the main stressed syllable onwa

  9. Plinth (hieroglyph) - Wikipedia

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