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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (abbreviated AHD) uses a phonetic notation based on the Latin alphabet to transcribe the pronunciation of spoken English. It and similar respelling systems, such as those used by the Merriam-Webster and Random House dictionaries, are familiar to US schoolchildren.
Captatio benevolentiae (Latin for "winning of goodwill") is a rhetorical technique aimed to capture the goodwill of the audience at the beginning of a speech or appeal. It was practiced by Roman orators, with Cicero considering it one of the pillars of oratory.
The following are the non-pulmonic consonants.They are sounds whose airflow is not dependent on the lungs. These include clicks (found in the Khoisan languages and some neighboring Bantu languages of Africa), implosives (found in languages such as Sindhi, Hausa, Swahili and Vietnamese), and ejectives (found in many Amerindian and Caucasian languages).
That pronunciation is still found in some dialects, but many speakers use a central vowel like [ɐ] or . To avoid the trap–strut merger, Standard Southern British English is moving away from the [ɐ] quality towards found in RP spoken in the first half of the 20th century (e.g. in Daniel Jones's speech). [2]
If there is one generally accepted pronunciation in the field, use that. However, there are often multiple pronunciations heard, along a cline from highly anglicized pronunciations, as found in Shakespeare, to attempts to remain faithful to the Latin or Greek pronunciation. For example, Io may be pronounced either / ˈ aɪ oʊ / or / ˈ iː oʊ ...
Phonemic notation commonly uses IPA symbols that are rather close to the default pronunciation of a phoneme, but for legibility often uses simple and 'familiar' letters rather than precise notation, for example /r/ and /o/ for the English [ɹʷ] and [əʊ̯] sounds, or /c, ɟ/ for [t͜ʃ, d͜ʒ] as mentioned above.
Benevolence or Benevolent may refer to: Benevolent (band) Benevolence (phrenology), a faculty in the discredited theory of phrenology "Benevolent" (song), a song by Tory Lanez; Benevolence (tax), a forced loan imposed by English kings from the 14th to 17th centuries; USS Benevolence, a Haven-class hospital ship
Canadian raising is not restricted to Canada. Raising of both / aɪ / and / aʊ / is common in eastern New England, for example in some Boston accents (the former more likely than the latter), [16] as well as in the Upper Midwest. South Atlantic English, New Orleans English, [17] and the accents of England's Fens feature it as well. Raisinɡ of ...