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Skowhegan (/ s k aʊ ˈ h iː ɡ ən /) is the county seat of Somerset County, Maine, United States. [2] As of the 2020 census , the town population was 8,620. [ 3 ] Every August, Skowhegan hosts the annual Skowhegan State Fair, the oldest continuously held state fair in the United States.
Homographs are words with the same spelling but having more than one meaning. Homographs may be pronounced the same , or they may be pronounced differently (heteronyms, also known as heterophones). Some homographs are nouns or adjectives when the accent is on the first syllable, and verbs when it is on the second.
One phenomenon apparently unique to North American U.S. accents is the irregular behavior of words that in the British English standard, Received Pronunciation, have /ɒrV/ (where V stands for any vowel). Words of this class include, among others: origin, Florida, horrible, quarrel, warren, borrow, tomorrow, sorry, and sorrow.
When followed by /r/, the historic /ɒ/ is pronounced entirely differently by Inland North speakers as [ɔ~o], for example, in the words orange, forest, and torrent. The only exceptions to this are the words tom orr ow, s orr y, s orr ow, b orr ow and, for some speakers, m orr ow , which use the sound [a~ä̈] .
1. All of these words sound like a specific letter in the alphabet. 2. These items are known for their notched edges. 3. Expressions that show mild frustration. 4. Features of a flowing body of water.
The Maine accent is the local traditional accent of Eastern New England English spoken in parts of Maine, especially along the "Down East" and "Mid Coast" seaside regions. [1] It is characterized by a variety of features, particularly among older speakers, including r -dropping ( non-rhoticity ), resistance to the horse–hoarse merger , [ 2 ...
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.
These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs, which are written differently but pronounced the same). Excluded are the numerous spellings which fail to make the pronunciation obvious without actually being at odds with convention: for example, the pronunciation / s k ə ˈ n ɛ k t ə d i / [ 1 ] [ 2 ] of ...