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  2. Cimbasso - Wikipedia

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    The cimbasso is a low brass instrument that covers the same range as a tuba or contrabass trombone. First appearing in Italy in the early 19th century as an upright serpent , the term cimbasso came to denote several instruments that could play the lowest brass part in 19th century Italian opera orchestras .

  3. Help:IPA/English - Wikipedia

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    In many dialects, /r/ occurs only before a vowel; if you speak such a dialect, simply ignore /r/ in the pronunciation guides where you would not pronounce it, as in cart /kɑːrt/. In other dialects, /j/ ( y es) cannot occur after /t, d, n/ , etc., within the same syllable; if you speak such a dialect, then ignore the /j/ in transcriptions such ...

  4. Forvo - Wikipedia

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    Forvo.com (/ ˈ f ɔːr v oʊ / ⓘ FOR-voh) is a website that allows access to, and playback of, pronunciation sound clips in many different languages in an attempt to facilitate the learning of languages.

  5. The ultimate Michigan pronunciation guide: 50 names you ... - AOL

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    Most everyone knows the C is silent and you pronounce this like the way the name Mackinaw City looks: "Mack-in-awe." 2. Sault Ste. Marie. The first word of this notable Upper Peninsula town trips ...

  6. Tuba - Wikipedia

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    The cimbasso is also seen instead of a tuba in the orchestral repertoire. The Italian word cimbasso, first appearing in the early 19th century, is thought to be a contraction used by musicians of the term corno basso or corno di basso (lit. ' bass horn '), sometimes appearing in scores as c. basso or c. in basso. [7]

  7. X Æ A-Xii: How to pronounce the name of Elon Musk and ... - AOL

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    Pronunciation. Grimes and Musk seem to have different ideas of how to pronounce the name. “It’s just X, like the letter X. Then AI. Like how you said the letter A then I,” Grimes said.

  8. Vietnamese exonyms - Wikipedia

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    In some cases, the name may retain an unchanged spelling, but a footnote may appear regarding how to pronounce the name in Vietnamese. For example, in the Harry Potter series of novels , the spelling of names for characters "Marge" and "Filch" remains unchanged, but footnotes exist to help Vietnamese speakers pronounce their names, which are ...

  9. List of irregularly spelled English names - Wikipedia

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    Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs , which are written differently but pronounced the same).