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  2. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Pronunciation

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    However, phonetic transcriptions of English may be useful to represent a specific accent, local or historical pronunciations, or how a person pronounces their own name. For example, the English name Florence would normally be given the generic transcription / ˈ f l ɒ r ən s /, but in the case of Florence Nightingale we have a recording of ...

  3. List of shibboleths - Wikipedia

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    Locals, however, pronounce the name as /ˈskuːkəl/ SKOO-kəl. The US state of Oregon is home to a county, city, river, bay, state forest, museum, Native American tribe, and dairy processing company called Tillamook. Residents pronounce it as / ˈ t ɪ l ə m ʊ k /, while nonresidents often mistakenly say / ˈ t ɪ l ə m uː k /. [75]

  4. Petticoat - Wikipedia

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    Then, as the waltz became popular in the 1820s, full-skirted gowns with petticoats were revived in Europe and the United States. In the Victorian era, petticoats were cemented as undergarments, used to give bulk and shape to the skirts worn over the petticoat. [12] By the mid 19th century, petticoats were worn over hoops also known as crinoline ...

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  6. Farthingale - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish verdugado, from which "farthingale" derives, was a hoop skirt originally stiffened with esparto grass; later designs in the temperate climate zone were stiffened with osiers (willow withies), rope, or (from about 1580) whalebone.

  7. List of irregularly spelled English names - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. How do you pronounce ‘Nvidia’? Here’s how to say the $3 ...

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    The name worked because the three had hopes to design such a powerful graphics chip that it would make competitors, as Priem previously told The New Yorker, “green with envy.” The First 'Nvidia '

  9. Urethral stricture - Wikipedia

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    A urethral stricture is a narrowing of the urethra, the tube connected to the bladder that allows urination. The narrowing reduces the flow of urine and makes it more difficult or even painful to empty the bladder. [1] Urethral stricture is caused by injury, instrumentation, infection, and certain non-infectious forms of urethritis. The ...