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  2. File:Beginners Book Of Songs.pdf - Wikipedia

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    English: Music and lyrics of the song "Good Morning to All", with third verse "Happy Birthday to You", printed in 1912 in Beginners book of Songs with instructions unauthorized publication, which do not credit Hill’s 1893 melody.

  3. List of forms of word play - Wikipedia

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    The term is often used to refer specifically to mishearings of song lyrics (cf. soramimi). Onomatopoeia: a word or a grouping of words that imitates the sound it is describing; Phonetic reversal; Rhyme: a repetition of identical or similar sounds in two or more different words Alliteration: matching consonants sounds at the beginning of words

  4. 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.

  5. Phonics - Wikipedia

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    Reading by using phonics is often referred to as decoding words, sounding-out words or using print-to-sound relationships.Since phonics focuses on the sounds and letters within words (i.e. sublexical), [13] it is often contrasted with whole language (a word-level-up philosophy for teaching reading) and a compromise approach called balanced literacy (the attempt to combine whole language and ...

  6. Received Pronunciation - Wikipedia

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    Some linguists have used the term "RP" while expressing reservations about its suitability. [16] [17] [18] The Cambridge-published English Pronouncing Dictionary (aimed at those learning English as a foreign language) uses the phrase "BBC Pronunciation", on the basis that the name "Received Pronunciation" is "archaic" and that BBC News presenters no longer suggest high social class and ...

  7. American and British English pronunciation differences

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    Words marked with subscript A or B are exceptions to this, and thus retains a full vowel in the (relatively) unstressed syllable of AmE or BrE. A subsequent asterisk, *, means that the full vowel is usually retained; a preceding * means that the full vowel is sometimes retained. Words with other points of difference are listed in a later table.

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  9. International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Square brackets are used with phonetic notation, whether broad or narrow [17] – that is, for actual pronunciation, possibly including details of the pronunciation that may not be used for distinguishing words in the language being transcribed, but which the author nonetheless wishes to document. Such phonetic notation is the primary function ...