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  2. Consonant voicing and devoicing - Wikipedia

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    Initial voicing is a process of historical sound change in which voiceless consonants become voiced at the beginning of a word. For example, modern German sagen [ˈzaːɡn̩] , Yiddish זאָגן [ˈzɔɡn̩] , and Dutch zeggen [ˈzɛɣə] (all "say") all begin with [z] , which derives from [s] in an earlier stage of Germanic, as is still ...

  3. English Pronouncing Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The English Pronouncing Dictionary (EPD) was created by the British phonetician Daniel Jones and was first published in 1917. [1] It originally comprised over 50,000 headwords listed in their spelling form, each of which was given one or more pronunciations transcribed using a set of phonemic symbols based on a standard accent.

  4. English phonology - Wikipedia

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    English phonology is the system of speech sounds used in spoken English. Like many other languages, English has wide variation in pronunciation, both historically and from dialect to dialect. In general, however, the regional dialects of English share a largely similar (but not identical) phonological system.

  5. Eversion (video game) - Wikipedia

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    Eversion was created in 2008 by indie developer Zaratustra as part of indie game community TIGSource's 2008 Commonplace Book Competition. The competition's name and concept were derived from a commonplace book kept by American author H. P. Lovecraft, in which he would jot down strange and often disjointed story ideas, generally lacking in context.

  6. Eversion - Wikipedia

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    Eversion (from the verb evert) is the process of turning inside-out. Eversion may refer to: Eversion may refer to: Eversion (kinesiology) , the anatomical term of motion denoting the movement of the sole of the foot away from the median plane

  7. Sound correspondences between English accents - Wikipedia

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    The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) can be used to represent sound correspondences among various accents and dialects of the English language. These charts give a diaphoneme for each sound, followed by its realization in different dialects. The symbols for the diaphonemes are given in bold, followed by their most common phonetic values.

  8. International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Phonemic notation commonly uses IPA symbols that are rather close to the default pronunciation of a phoneme, but for legibility often uses simple and 'familiar' letters rather than precise notation, for example /r/ and /o/ for the English [ɹʷ] and [əʊ̯] sounds, or /c, ɟ/ for [t͜ʃ, d͜ʒ] as mentioned above.

  9. List of irregularly spelled English names - Wikipedia

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    Variant pronunciations of one place Canada: Osoyoos: oss-OO-yooss / ɒ ˈ s uː j uː s / Variant pronunciations of one place Canada: Osoyoos: SOO-yooss / ˈ s uː j uː s / Variant pronunciations of one place Canada: Ossington Avenue: OZ-ing-tən / ˈ ɒ z ɪ ŋ t ə n / Canada: Ough's Road, Port Hope: OPS / ɒ p s / Ireland: Owenabue: ohn-ə ...