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  2. Chowdhury - Wikipedia

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    Chowdhury (also: Choudhuri, Chaudhuri, Choudhury, Chaudhri, Chaudhary, Chaudhry) is a title of honour, usually hereditary, originating from the Indian subcontinent. [1] It is an adaption from Sanskrit .

  3. List of irregularly spelled English names - Wikipedia

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    Mainly North American pronunciation Lygon: LIG-ən / ˈ l ɪ ɡ ən / Machin: MAY-chin / ˈ m eɪ tʃ ɪ n / MacCaughey, McCaughey: like McCoy / m ə ˈ k ɔɪ / MacGrath, McGrath: mə-GRAH / m ə ˈ ɡ r ɑː / Pronunciation mainly Irish MacKay, McKay: mə-KY / m ə ˈ k aɪ / Pronunciation mainly Scottish MacLean, McLean: like McClain / m ə ...

  4. List of Bengalis - Wikipedia

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    Chowdhury Gulam Akbar, writer and collector of Bengali folk literature for the Bangla Academy; Kabir Chowdhury, academic and essayist; Jibanananda Das (1899–1954), poet; Indra Das, author in English literature; Durjoy Datta (born 1987), author in modern English Literature; Ashapurna Devi (1909–1995), novelist and short story writer

  5. Bengali phonology - Wikipedia

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    English and other foreign (বিদেশী bideshi) borrowings add even more cluster types into the Bengali inventory, further increasing the syllable capacity, [citation needed] as commonly-used loanwords such as ট্রেন ṭren ('train') and গ্লাস glash ('glass') are now included in leading Bengali dictionaries.

  6. Pronunciation respelling for English - Wikipedia

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    A pronunciation respelling for English is a notation used to convey the pronunciation of words in the English language, which do not have a phonemic orthography (i.e. the spelling does not reliably indicate pronunciation). There are two basic types of pronunciation respelling:

  7. Phonetic notation of the American Heritage Dictionary

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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.

  8. Pramatha Chaudhuri - Wikipedia

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    Pramathanath Chaudhuri (7 August 1868 – 2 September 1946), known as Pramatha Chaudhuri, alias Birbal, was a Bengali writer and a figure in Bengali literature.He was the nephew of Rabindranath Tagore as his mother was Sukumari Debi, the second sister of Tagore.

  9. Bengali dialects - Wikipedia

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    A similar pronunciation is also found in Assamese, a related language across the border in India. The aspirated velar stop খ [kʰ], the voiceless aspirated labial stop ফ [pʰ], and the aspirated dental stop থ [t̪ʰ] of western-central Bengali correspond to [x ~ ʜ], [ɸ ~ f] and [t̪ ~ θ] in eastern Bengali. Retroflexes lose aspiration ...