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  2. List of irregularly spelled English names - Wikipedia

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    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).

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    In the "Summary" box, add a description of the file, the date and your username. Description might be, for example, "Pronunciation of "Hampshire" in British English (Received Pronunciation/South East England)". Also add the file to the relevant category by adding this at the bottom: [[Category:British English pronunciation]]

  4. Joe Theismann - Wikipedia

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    Theismann, whose last name was actually pronounced THEES-mann, later recalled that Notre Dame publicity man Roger Valdiserri who insisted that he change the pronunciation of his name to rhyme with "Heisman", although in the process learned from his grandmother that the original pronunciation of his last name was TICE-mann.

  5. List of irregularly spelt places in the United Kingdom

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    This is a sublist of List of irregularly spelled English names. These common suffixes have the following regular pronunciations, which are historic, well established and etymologically consistent. However, they may be counterintuitive, as their pronunciation is inconsistent with the usual phonetics of English. -b(o)rough and -burgh – / b ər ə /

  6. Pronunciation respelling for English - Wikipedia

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    The first native (not learner's) English dictionary using IPA may have been the Collins English Dictionary (1979), and others followed suit. The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (OED2, 1989) used IPA, transcribed letter-for-letter from entries in the first edition, which had been noted in a scheme by the original editor, James Murray.

  7. English Pronouncing Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    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.

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  9. Surname - Wikipedia

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    In English and other languages like Spanish—although the usual order of names is "first middle last"—for the purpose of cataloging in libraries and in citing the names of authors in scholarly papers, the order is changed to "last, first middle," with the last and first names separated by a comma, and items are alphabetized by the last name.