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  2. List of irregularly spelled places in the United States

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    Cairo, Georgia: KAY-roh / ˈ k eɪ r oʊ / Also the place in Mississippi Cairo, Illinois: KAIR-oh / ˈ k ɛər oʊ / Also the places in New York and Ohio Cahuenga Pass: kə-WENG-gə / k ə ˈ w ɛ ŋ ɡ ə / Calais, Maine: KAL-iss / ˈ k æ l ɪ s / [n 3] Also the place in Vermont Calliope Street, New Orleans, Louisiana KAL-ee-ohp / ˈ k æ l i ...

  3. Cairo, Georgia - Wikipedia

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    Cairo (/ ˈ k eɪ r oʊ /) is a city in Grady County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2020 census , the city had a population of 10,179. The city is the county seat of Grady County.

  4. Help:IPA/English - Wikipedia

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    Throughout Wikipedia, the pronunciation of words is indicated using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). The following tables list the IPA symbols used for English words and pronunciations. Please note that several of these symbols are used in ways that are specific to Wikipedia, and differ from those used by dictionaries.

  5. List of adjectivals and demonyms for cities - Wikipedia

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    Adjectives ending -ish can be used as collective demonyms (e.g. the English, the Cornish). So can those ending in -ch / -tch (e.g. the French , the Dutch ) provided they are pronounced with a 'ch' /tʃ/ sound (e.g. the adjective Czech does not qualify as its -ch is pronounced /k/ ).

  6. Heteronym (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Other examples include local pronunciations of Cairo, Georgia; Versailles, Kentucky; and Milan, Tennessee—compared to the more well-known Cairo, Versailles, and Milan—or the difference between the pronunciation of Louisville, Kentucky (/ ˈ l uː ə v əl /) and the town of Louisville, New York (/ ˈ l uː ɪ s v ɪ l /).

  7. Lists of English words by country or language of origin

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    The following are lists of words in the English language that are known as "loanwords" or "borrowings," which are derived from other languages.. For Old English-derived words, see List of English words of Old English origin.

  8. Comparison of General American and Received Pronunciation

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    Rhoticity – GA is rhotic while RP is non-rhotic; that is, the phoneme /r/ is only pronounced in RP when it is immediately followed by a vowel sound. [5] Where GA pronounces /r/ before a consonant and at the end of an utterance, RP either has no consonant (if the preceding vowel is /ɔː/, /ɜ:/ or /ɑː/, as in bore, burr and bar) or has a schwa instead (the resulting sequences being ...

  9. List of Coptic place names - Wikipedia

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    English name Coptic name Transliteration and pronunciation Etymology Arabic name Ancient Greek name Bohairic: Other dialects: Classical Bohairic: Late Bohairic: Cairo: ϯⲕⲉϣⲣⲱⲙⲓ ti-Kešrōmi: [ti.kəʃˈɾoːmi] di-Kešrōmi: [di.kəʃˈɾoːmi] From Arabic: القصر الروم, romanized: al-Qasr ar-Rum: القاهرة Helwan