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In the description, include the term being pronounced, a description of your speech dialect, and any sources you used to determine the correct pronunciation, if applicable. Add the appropriate subcategory of commons:Category:Pronunciation based on the language of the pronunciation (e.g. [[Category:English pronunciation]]).
Respelling non-English pronunciations into English is inadequate and misleading. If an English respelling is given for a Welsh or Māori name, not only would it be bad Welsh or Māori but the implication would be that it's the English pronunciation. Nonetheless, an ad hoc description of a non-English language word in that language is permitted.
Pronunciation can change over time. Dictionaries may list the most commonly used forms of words, but as language changes, dictionaries change as well. At best, any guide to suggested pronunciation can reflect the preponderance of usage. A word like immediately, for example, is variously pronounced by Americans as: ihMEEdeeuhtlee; uhMEEdeeuhtlee
And to clarify, I'm referring to names such as Favre, Schiavo, etc. These names' pronunciation may be counterintuitive but this isn't of much relevance to English language or history as such. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.69.64.60 03:41, 28 April 2012 (UTC) Support-I'm going to start weeding--Kintetsubuffalo 17
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).
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. [1] (Pronunciation ⓘ)
Yeah, I think of M-O-O-R-Y,” the actress clarified, then spelling out how to pronounce her first name: “T-A-M-I-R-A.” Shannon Finney/Getty Tamera Mowry-Housley and Jonathan Bennett in ...
The same changes affected the English pronunciation of Greek, which thus became further removed from both Ancient Greek and from the Greek that was pronounced in other western countries. A further peculiarity of the English pronunciation of Ancient Greek occurred as a result of the work of Isaac Vossius. He maintained in an anonymously ...