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The following pronunciation respelling key is used in some Wikipedia articles to respell the pronunciations of English words.It does not use special symbols or diacritics apart from the schwa (ə), which is used for the first sound in the word "about".
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]
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.
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 ...
M, or m, is the thirteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of several western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is em (pronounced / ˈ ɛ m / ), plural ems .
"People pronounce my name many different ways. Let #KidsForKamala show you how it’s done," she wrote in the original tweet, from May 2016. It's just a short video, ...
Most of the world’s top corporations have simple names. Steve Jobs named Apple while on a fruitarian diet, and found the name "fun, spirited and not intimidating." Plus, it came before Atari in ...
Letters turned 180 degrees for suggestive shapes, such as ɐ ɔ ə ɟ ɥ ɯ ɹ ʌ ʍ ʎ from a c e f h m r v w y . [note 8] Either the original letter may be reminiscent of the target sound, e.g., ɐ ə ɹ ʍ – or the turned one, e.g., ɔ ɟ ɥ ɯ ʌ ʎ .