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Jónsdóttir is a surname of Icelandic origin, meaning daughter of Jón. In Icelandic names, the name is not strictly a surname, but a patronymic (see Icelandic name ). The name refers to:
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.
The pair named her Ísadóra Bjarkardóttir Barney, giving her two last names of different origin: Barney, her father's last name (following the Western tradition of giving a child their father's last name, usually a collective family name), and Bjarkardóttir, a conventional Icelandic matronymic.
In the latter of each example, the pronunciation can be read in a footnote. It needs to be listed in the notes or references section with the appropriate wikitext immediately after the heading, in a new line, using {}, <references/>, or <references group=pron/> if it's a named reference (changing "pron" to the relevant text). If this is not ...
Pronunciation is the way in which a word or a language is spoken. This may refer to generally agreed-upon sequences of sounds used in speaking a given word or language in a specific dialect ("correct" or "standard" pronunciation) or simply the way a particular individual speaks a word or language.
The following chart matches the IPA symbols used to represent the sounds of the English language with the phonetic symbols used in several dictionaries, a majority of which transcribe American English. These works adhere (for the most part) to the one-symbol-per-sound principle.
Rollings (2004) uses the term "markers" for such letters. Letters may mark different types of information. For instance, e in once / ˈ w ʌ n s / indicates that the preceding c is pronounced / s / , rather than the more common value of c in word-final position as the sound / k / , such as in attic / ˈ æ t ɪ k / .
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 /. [74]