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  2. List of irregularly spelled English names - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Standard Canadian English - Wikipedia

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    Standard Canadian English is the largely homogeneous variety of Canadian English that is spoken particularly across Ontario and Western Canada, as well as throughout Canada among urban middle-class speakers from English-speaking families, [1] excluding the regional dialects of Atlantic Canadian English. Canadian English has a mostly uniform ...

  4. Mispronunciation - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, mispronunciation is the act of pronouncing a word incorrectly. [1] [2] Languages are pronounced in different ways by different people, depending on factors like the area they grew up in, their level of education, and their social class. Even within groups of the same area and class, people can pronounce words differently ...

  5. Canadian English - Wikipedia

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    On the other hand, Anglophones pronounce the final d as in Bernard and Bouchard; the word Montreal is pronounced as an English word and Rue Lambert-Closse is known as Clossy Street (vs French /klɔs/). In the city of Montreal, especially in some of the western suburbs like Côte-St-Luc and Hampstead, there is a strong Jewish influence in the ...

  6. Canadian raising - Wikipedia

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    A simplified diagram of Canadian raising (Rogers 2000:124).Actual starting points vary. Canadian raising (also sometimes known as English diphthong raising [1]) is an allophonic rule of phonology in many varieties of North American English that changes the pronunciation of diphthongs with open-vowel starting points.

  7. American and British English spelling differences - Wikipedia

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    In Canada, the -ize ending is more common, although the Ontario Public School Spelling Book [65] spelled most words in the -ize form, but allowed for duality with a page insert as late as the 1970s, noting that, although the -ize spelling was in fact the convention used in the OED, the choice to spell such words in the -ise form was a matter of ...

  8. Non-native pronunciations of English - Wikipedia

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    The alveolar consonants /t, d, n, s, z, l/ are articulated with the blade of the tongue, rather than the tip as in English. [26] Pronunciation of vowels. Speakers confuse between /æ/ and /ɛ/, so that man and men are both pronounced as the latter. [29] Speakers confuse between /uː/ and /ʊ/, so that pool and pull are both pronounced with [u ...

  9. English orthography - Wikipedia

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    In these cases, a given morpheme (i.e., a component of a word) has a fixed spelling even though it is pronounced differently in different words. An example is the past tense suffix - ed , which may be pronounced variously as /t/ , /d/ , or /ᵻd/ [ a ] (for example, pay / ˈ p eɪ / , payed / ˈ p eɪ d / , hate / ˈ h eɪ t / , hated / ˈ h ...