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Orthrus and his master Eurytion were charged with guarding the three-headed, or three-bodied giant Geryon's herd of red cattle in the "sunset" land of Erytheia ("red one"), an island in the far west of the Mediterranean. [5] Heracles killed Orthrus, and later slew Eurytion and Geryon before taking the red cattle to complete his tenth labor.
Swedish pronunciation of most consonants is similar to that of other Germanic languages. There are 18 consonant phonemes, of which /ɧ/ and /r/ show considerable variation depending on both social and dialectal context. Finland Swedish has a slightly different phonology.
In loanwords from various other languages, the pronunciation of ch , sch and sh has been modified to the Swedish sj-sound. The Swedish [ j ] sound can also be spelled several different ways, including dj , g , gj , hj , j , or lj , similarly to the tj -sound which can be spelled with ch (in some loanwords), k , kj , or tj .
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For example, you may pronounce cot and caught the same, do and dew, or marry and merry. 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 chart provides audio examples for phonetic vowel symbols. The symbols shown include those in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and added material. The chart is based on the official IPA vowel chart. [1] The International Phonetic Alphabet is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin alphabet.
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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.