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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.
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 ...
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/ ).
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.
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A word like immediately, for example, is variously pronounced by Americans as: ihMEEdeeuhtlee; uhMEEdeeuhtlee; eeMEEdeeuhtlee; The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary suggests the first pronunciation. Similarly, this pronunciation markup guide will choose the most widely used form. NOTE: This guide is designed to be simple and easy to use.
List of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom; List of British words not widely used in the United States; List of South African English regionalisms; List of words having different meanings in American and British English: A–L; List of words having different meanings in American and British English: M–Z
Differences in pronunciation between American English (AmE) and British English (BrE) can be divided into . differences in accent (i.e. phoneme inventory and realisation).See differences between General American and Received Pronunciation for the standard accents in the United States and Britain; for information about other accents see regional accents of English.