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Salesville is located in central Baxter County at 36°14′41″N 92°16′32″W (36.244845, -92.275619). [5] The center of town is at the intersection of Arkansas Highway 5 and 177, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Norfork Dam. The North Fork River, after coming out of the dam, forms the eastern boundary of Salesville.
Within the chart “close”, “open”, “mid”, “front”, “central”, and “back” refer to the placement of the sound within the mouth. [3] At points where two sounds share an intersection, the left is unrounded, and the right is rounded which refers to the shape of the lips while making the sound. [4] IPA: Vowels. Front. Central.
He served as pronunciation consultant for the influential Concise Oxford English Dictionary, which adopted this scheme in its ninth edition (1995). Upton's reform is controversial: it reflects changing pronunciation, but critics say it represents a narrower regional accent, and abandons parallelism with American and Australian English.
The pronunciation with the accent on the second syllable with the sound of "a" in "man" and the sounding of the terminal "s" is an innovation to be discouraged. Residents of Kansas often pronounce the Arkansas River as / ɑːr ˈ k æ n z ə s ˈ r ɪ v ər / in a manner similar to the common pronunciation of the name of their state. History
Arkansas ( / ˈɑːrkənsɔː / ⓘ AR-kən-saw [c]) is a landlocked state in the South Central region of the Southern United States. [9] [10] It borders Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma to the west. Its name derives from the Osage language, and refers to ...
Appalachian English is American English native to the Appalachian mountain region of the Eastern United States. Historically, the term Appalachian dialect refers to a local English variety of southern Appalachia, also known as Smoky Mountain English or Southern Mountain English in American linguistics. [1]
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". See documentation for { { Respell }} for examples and instructions on using the template.
North American English regional phonology is the study of variations in the pronunciation of spoken North American English (English of the United States and Canada)—what are commonly known simply as "regional accents". Though studies of regional dialects can be based on multiple characteristics, often including characteristics that are ...