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The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary suggests the first pronunciation. Similarly, this pronunciation markup guide will choose the most widely used form. NOTE: This guide is designed to be simple and easy to use. This can only be achieved by giving up scope and freedom from occasional ambiguity.
In August 2018, Google Search added an English and Hindi dictionary for mobile users in India with an option to switch to the English only dictionary. [22] A "learn to pronounce" option was added to the English dictionary in December 2018 which shows how a word is pronounced with its non-phonemic pronunciation respelling and audio in different ...
A salmon steak with beurre maître d'hôtel, served with spinach. Beurre maître d'hôtel (French pronunciation: [bœʁ mɛtʁ dotɛl]), also referred to as maître d'hôtel butter, is a type of compound butter (French: "beurre composé") of French origin, prepared with butter, parsley, lemon juice, salt and pepper.
Smørrebrød (Danish pronunciation: [ˈsmɶɐ̯ˌpʁœðˀ]; originally smør og brød, "butter and bread" [1]), smørbrød "butter bread" (), or smörgås " [ˈsmœrˌɡoːs] butter goose" (), is a traditional open-faced sandwich [2] in the cuisines of Denmark, Norway and Sweden that usually consists of a piece of buttered rye bread (rugbrød, a dense, dark brown bread), topped with ...
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.
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 ...
In some Germanic languages, the cognate of smear itself means butter (c.f. smör/smør in the North Germanic languages). The use and spelling of schmear or shmear in American English is a direct loanword from Yiddish , where its original usage referred to cheese. [ 1 ]
Cooking something à la nage translates as “while swimming” (French nage) and refers to cooking in a well-flavored court-bouillon. [2] Eventually the term "nage" itself came to refer to a broth which, while light, is strong enough to be served as a light sauce with the dish itself, [3] unlike a court-bouillon which is omitted.