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- Why is the spelling of pronounce and pronunciation different?
As for why the word pronounce has an O between the two N’s and pronunciation does not, it is unclear, but both words derive from French, pronunciation from pronunciation and pronounce from pronuncier There is probably some variation in the way the different word stress affected how the words were spelled after being borrowed into English
- pronunciation - How is æ supposed to be pronounced? - English . . .
There’s no simple answer to any question of the form “How is <letter> <digraph> pronounced?” It depends As you’ll have seen in the Wikipedia article, what would have been pronounced ai in Latin is usually pronounced iː in English, but there are inevitably exceptions like the name Æleen, or examples like paedophile where the British rendering iː goes through both a spelling
- Pronunciation of cache - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I know a few people who pronounce it more like cash, cashay or even catch After consulting a few dictionaries, it turns out that the correct pronunciation of the word "cache" is cash My question is, are the other pronunciations of "cache" (kaysh, cashay, catch) not totally acceptable? Which one do IT people prefer?
- “The ðə United States” or “The ðiː United States”?
How to correctly pronounce the the in The United States? Is it the the that’s pronounced ðə , or is it the the that’s pronounced ðiː , and why? I often hear the second pronunciation, but I think that since the U in United States is not a vowel sound, it should be the first pronunciation
- proper nouns - Pronunciation of Azure in Microsoft Azure - English . . .
In BE programmers tend to pronounces it the AE way The msft presentations all pronounce it in AE and it isn't a common enough everyday word for the local pronunciation to stick Quite a few programmers who don't spend time on tropical beaches are unaware that it is a word –
- pronunciation - Why is Sean pronounced Shawn? - English Language . . .
Basically, Irish uses Latin letters just to confuse the foreigners Just because it looks like an S, and just because you think you know how to pronounce an S because umpteen other languages write the s sound with an S, doesn't mean that you have the faintest clue what sound an Irishman means when he writes S
- pronunciation - How are i. e. and e. g. pronounced? - English . . .
But just as English speakers often pronounce I in the first syllable of example and exemplary, it would also be typical in an English pronunciation of Latin (the type of pronunciation whereby "stare decisis" rhymes with "vary the crisis") to use ɪ in the first syllable of exempli gratia –
- Reason for different pronunciations of lieutenant
'Lieutenant' comes from French lieu ('place') and tenant ('holding') Some sources claim that 'lieutenant' had alternative spellings such as leftenant, leftenaunt, lieftenant, lieftenaunt etc , and that the ModE pronunciation with f (BrE mostly) is a holdover from those spellings
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