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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. Ravi Shankar - Wikipedia

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    Shankar was born on 7 April 1920 in Benares (now Varanasi), then the capital of the eponymous princely state, in a Bengali Hindu family, as the youngest of seven brothers. [3] [8] [9] His father, Shyam Shankar Chowdhury, was a Middle Temple barrister and scholar who was originally from Jessore district in Bengal (now Narail district, Bangladesh).

  5. Ashik Chowdhury - Wikipedia

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    Chowdhury joined American Airlines in London in October 2012 as a financial and strategic analyst and left in May 2019 as the Head of Finance, Europe and Asia. [4] He was a visiting professor at the Bangladesh University of Professionals. [4] [3] He was an advisor of Grameen Telecom Trust. [4] He joined HSBC Bangladesh before moving onto HSBC ...

  6. Bibhas Roy Chowdhury - Wikipedia

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    Roy Chowdhury was born to a refugee family on 1 August 1968 at Bihutipalli in frontier town Bangaon in the district of North 24 Pargonas in West Bengal in India. His parents, Shyamdulal Roy Chowdhury and Bithika Roy Chowdhury, originally belonged to Bangladesh, were left destitute during the partition of Bengal, and became full-time laborers when they settled in Bongaon, despite being an ...

  7. 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:

  8. English Pronouncing Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The English Pronouncing Dictionary (EPD) was created by the British phonetician Daniel Jones and was first published in 1917. [1] It originally comprised over 50,000 headwords listed in their spelling form, each of which was given one or more pronunciations transcribed using a set of phonemic symbols based on a standard accent.

  9. Sylhetis - Wikipedia

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    The Sylheti language, which some consider as a dialect of Bengali, [19] while many linguists consider it as a distinct language, [20] is central to Sylheti identity. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] Its unique phonetic qualities and vocabulary often make it unintelligible to standard Bengali speakers, which contributes to a sense of separateness among Sylhetis.