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Bala Cynwyd (/ ˌ b æ l ə ˈ k ɪ n w ʊ d / BAL-ə KIN-wuud) [a] is a community and census-designated place in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, United States.It is located on the Philadelphia Main Line in Southeastern Pennsylvania and borders the western edge of Philadelphia at U.S. Route 1 (City Avenue).
I have been to the Welsh village (Cynwyd) but it was a long time ago and I couldn't say how the locals pronounce it! Haydn01 12:13, 22 February 2010 (UTC)Locals in north wales say kuhnwid, the first syllable is a schwah with a short u as in umbrella. There no longer appears to be any section detailing the pronunciation.
Cynwyd station (SEPTA), a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, USA; Cynwyd railway station (Wales), a former railway station in Cynwyd, Denbighshire, Wales; Other: Cynwyd of Alt Clut, or Cinuit (6th century), possible ruler of Alt Clut in modern-day Scotland; Cynwyd Forest Quarry, a protected area in Denbighshire, Wales
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.
The Natural Language Toolkit contains an interface to the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. The Carnegie Mellon Logios [5] tool incorporates the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. PronunDict, a pronunciation dictionary of American English, uses the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary as its data source. Pronunciation is transcribed in IPA symbols.
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. Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages.
Differences in pronunciation between American English (AmE) and British English (BrE) can be divided into . differences in accent (i.e. phoneme inventory and realisation).See differences between General American and Received Pronunciation for the standard accents in the United States and Britain; for information about other accents see regional accents of English.
A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English, also referred to as Kenyon and Knott, was first published by the G. & C. Merriam Company in 1944, and written by John Samuel Kenyon and Thomas A. Knott. It provides a phonemic transcription of General American pronunciations of words, using symbols largely corresponding to those of the IPA .