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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. This can only be achieved by giving up scope and freedom from occasional ambiguity.
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A socialite is a person, typically a woman from a wealthy or aristocratic background, who is prominent in high society. [1] A socialite generally spends a significant amount of time attending various fashionable social gatherings, instead of having traditional employment.
Pronunciation of ng : Some speakers might replace /ŋ/ with the sequence /ŋg/ categorically or at least use [ŋg] as an optional variant of /ŋ/, as stereotyped in the pronunciation spelling "Lawn Guyland" for "Long Island" ([ɫɔəŋˈɡɑɪɫənd] rather than the more General American [ɫɔŋˈäɪɫənd]).
Ms. Arnold was a wealthy socialite of the early 20th century American society. She disappeared without trace on December 12, 1910 when she was 25 years old in New York City.
A socialite is a person of social prominence who spends substantial time and resources entertaining or being entertained. For more information, see Socialite . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Socialites .
Ava Astor (portrait of Giovanni Boldini 1910s) Ava Alice Muriel Astor (photograph circa 1920). The name was popularized in the United States by socialite Ava Lowle Willing (1868–1958), who married John Jacob Astor IV, and their daughter, socialite and heiress Ava Alice Muriel Astor (1902–1956).
For example, the alveolar flap is a rhotic consonant in many languages, but in North American English, the alveolar tap is an allophone of the stop phoneme /t/, as in water. It is likely that rhotics are not a phonetically natural class but a phonological class. [5]