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The phenomenon of intrusive R is a reinterpretation [11] [12] of linking R into an r-insertion rule that affects any word that ends in the non-high vowels /ə/, /ɪə/, /ɑː/, or /ɔː/; [13] when such a word is closely followed by another word beginning in a vowel sound, an /r/ is inserted between them, even when no final /r/ was historically ...
Onomatopoeia: a word or a grouping of words that imitates the sound it is describing; Phonetic reversal; Rhyme: a repetition of identical or similar sounds in two or more different words Alliteration: matching consonants sounds at the beginning of words; Assonance: matching vowel sounds; Consonance: matching consonant sounds
/ r ɪ ˈ zj uː m / verb to start again / ˈ r ɛ zj ʊ m eɪ / noun curriculum vitae (sometimes distinguished with acute accents; résumé) retreat / r ɪ ˈ t r iː t / verb to fall back from a battle front / r iː ˈ t r iː t / verb to treat again (some style guides specify a hyphen for this sense, to increase clarity: re-treat) root / ˈ ...
punctuation mark used at the end of a sentence (interj.) used at the end of a statement to emphasise its finality *("You are not going to that concert, period!") (UK: full stop for both senses) pinafore A sleeveless, collarless dress worn over a shirt (Jumper (dress)) A style of apron pint
bombed / ˈ-ɒ m d / rhymes with glommed, American slang for 'attached'. [8] cairn rhymes with bairn, a Northern English and Scottish word meaning child. chaos / ˈ-eɪ. ɒ s / rhymes with naos, the inner chamber of a temple. chimney / ˈ-ɪ m n i / rhymes with Jimny, a model of car from Japanese automaker Suzuki.
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.
Another example includes words like mean / ˈ m iː n / and meant / ˈ m ɛ n t /, where ea is pronounced differently in the two related words. Thus, again, the orthography uses only a single spelling that corresponds to the single morphemic form rather than to the surface phonological form.
When the prefix "re-" is added to a monosyllabic word, the word gains currency both as a noun and as a verb. Most of the pairs listed below are closely related: for example, "absent" as a noun meaning "missing", and as a verb meaning "to make oneself missing".