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Also the city in New Hampshire Leicester, Massachusetts: like Lester / ˈ l ɛ s t ər / [n 19] Leicester, Vermont: LY-stər / ˈ l aɪ s t ər / Lemhi County: LEM-hy / ˈ l ɛ m h aɪ / Lemoore: lə-MOR / l ə ˈ m ɔːr / Colloquial pronunciation LEE-mor / ˈ l iː m ɔːr / Official pronunciation Leominster: LEM-in-stər / ˈ l ɛ m ɪ n s t ...
This is a set of lists of English personal and place names having spellings that are counterintuitive to their pronunciation because the spelling does not accord with conventional pronunciation associations. Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages.
This is a sublist of List of irregularly spelled English names. These common suffixes have the following regular pronunciations, which are historic, well established and etymologically consistent. However, they may be counterintuitive, as their pronunciation is inconsistent with the usual phonetics of English. -b(o)rough and -burgh – / b ər ə /
The database is distributed as a plain text file with one entry to a line in the format "WORD <pronunciation>" with a two-space separator between the parts. If multiple pronunciations are available for a word, variants are identified using numbered versions (e.g. WORD(1)).
If the pronunciation in a specific accent is desired, square brackets may be used, perhaps with a link to IPA chart for English dialects, which describes several national standards, or with a comment that the pronunciation is General American, Received Pronunciation, Australian English, etc. Local pronunciations are of particular interest in ...
Indian English: Standard Indian English. Indian English: the "standard" English used by government administration, it derives from the British Indian Empire. Butler English: (also Bearer English or Kitchen English), once an occupational dialect, now a social dialect. Hinglish: a growing macaronic hybrid use of English and Indian languages.
Adjectives ending -ish can be used as collective demonyms (e.g. the English, the Cornish). So can those ending in -ch / -tch (e.g. the French , the Dutch ) provided they are pronounced with a 'ch' /tʃ/ sound (e.g. the adjective Czech does not qualify as its -ch is pronounced /k/ ).
Montréal, Québec: Anglophone Montrealers pronounce the name of their city with the STRUT vowel in the first syllable, thus: / ˌ m ʌ n t r i ˈ ɔː l / MUN-tree-AWL. The tendency of English speakers, usually from the US, to pronounce the first syllable with the LOT vowel (thus / ˌ m ɒ n t r i ˈ ɔː l / MON-tree-AWL), immediately marks ...