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  2. List of shibboleths - Wikipedia

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    Locals, however, pronounce the name as /ˈskuːkəl/ SKOO-kəl. The US state of Oregon is home to a county, city, river, bay, state forest, museum, Native American tribe, and dairy processing company called Tillamook. Residents pronounce it as / ˈ t ɪ l ə m ʊ k /, while nonresidents often mistakenly say / ˈ t ɪ l ə m uː k /. [74]

  3. Help:IPA/English - Wikipedia

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    For example, you may pronounce cot and caught, do and dew, or marry and merry the same. This often happens because of dialect variation (see our articles English phonology and International Phonetic Alphabet chart for English dialects). If this is the case, you will pronounce those symbols the same for other words as well. [1]

  4. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Pronunciation

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    When using any key-linking IPA template such as these, English or other language, an editor should transcribe using the conventions of the key it links to; for example, the generic English ar sound is transcribed / r / in Wikipedia articles, not */ɹ/, and is used where speakers of rhotic dialects would pronounce it, even in personal and place ...

  5. Standard Canadian English - Wikipedia

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    Standard Canadian English is the largely homogeneous variety of Canadian English that is spoken particularly across Ontario and Western Canada, as well as throughout Canada among urban middle-class speakers from English-speaking families, [1] excluding the regional dialects of Atlantic Canadian English.

  6. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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    One well known example, [17] for comedic effect, is from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (ignoring the punctuation provides the alternate reading). Enter QUINCE for the Prologue Prologue If we offend, it is with our good will. That you should think, we come not to offend, But with good will. To show our simple skill,

  7. International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    For example, cot would be used for the orthography of the English word cot, as opposed to its pronunciation /ˈkɒt/. Italics are usual when words are written as themselves (as with cot in the previous sentence) rather than to specifically note their orthography.

  8. English orthography - Wikipedia

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    Other examples of this type are the - ity suffix (as in agile vs. agility, acid vs. acidity, divine vs. divinity, sane vs. sanity). See also: Trisyllabic laxing. Another example includes words like mean / ˈ m iː n / and meant / ˈ m ɛ n t /, where ea is pronounced differently in the two related words. Thus, again, the orthography uses only a ...

  9. Eligibility - Wikipedia

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    Eligibility may refer to: The right to run for office (in elections), sometimes called passive suffrage or voting eligibility; Desirability as a marriage partner, as in the term eligible bachelor; Validity for participation, as in eligibility to enter a Competition; Eligibility for the NBA draft; Eligible receiver, gridiron football rules for ...