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"Chic" is a word from French and when it's used in English, it means sophisticated, elegant, fashionable. Sometimes people mispronounce it on purpose, though, in order to ironically refer to something that is the opposite, and in that case, I call it "chick," which is a much more English-style pronunciation of this spelling.
When using just the character "a", the correct is "à". The pronunciation is practically the same as "o" in "ouch". 2. "ã and a" are the same and are practically the same as "un" in "under". When used as a letter, "a" has the same pronunciation as "à". Again, just "ã" does not exist. 3. "â" is the same as "ã". Again, just â" does not exist.
o (stressed) [ɔ]: l o ja as in sh o p or [o]: gl o bo as in p o le. So, this implies that "o" (that has no graphic accent over it) has two different pronunciations (besides , of course): 1. diphthongized [o]: l o c o m o tiva, gl o bo as in p o le. 2. monophthong [ɔ]: l o ja as in sh o p.
When I read up on the how Mandarin is pronounced, it seemed to me that [ɿ] is not in the IPA because it's not really a vowel but [z] used as a vowel (in the sense that it counts as a syllable).
McIntyre is pronounced Mack-in-tyre. McKee is pronounced M3-key. Well, doesn't it simply come down to whether the following letter is a vowel in which case the Mac or Mc takes the stress (then pronounced mack) or if it's a consonant then the bit after the Mc or Mac takes the stress (then pronounced mehk).
English English. Feb 19, 2013. #3. £10.50 ~ ten fifty. £2.43 ~ two forty-three. £99.99 ~ ninety-nine ninety-nine. etc. In this part of the world people who mention either pounds or pence/pee are vanishingly rare.
Alz. The origin is Venetian. "Ciao" is Venetian for "schiavo", slave or servant. So, it is in principle same as the Austrian/Bavarian greeting "Servus" ("I am your servant", "at your service"). This, together with the phonetic proximity to "tschüss" (or its regional variant "tschö") may explain the popularity of the word in German.
Jan 13, 2018. #10. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) uses the schwa symbol for a "mid central vowel". (mid height, central between front and back), and the inverted v for an "open-mid back unrounded vowel". Features they have in common are mid height, unroundedness, and "non-frontness" (if you will).
For questions about Chinese, or translations between Chinese and any other language. 1.
The pronunciation of the indefinite article a, is sometimes pronounced as /ey/ like in day, to give emphasis to the following word. In recent years the pronunciation of a as "ay" (as in day) has become almost commonplace among Tory politicians and has now spread like a contagious disease to other parties and to the broadcasting media.