enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Cimbasso - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimbasso

    The cimbasso is a low brass instrument that covers the same range as a tuba or contrabass trombone. First appearing in Italy in the early 19th century as an upright serpent , the term cimbasso came to denote several instruments that could play the lowest brass part in 19th century Italian opera orchestras .

  3. The ultimate Michigan pronunciation guide: 50 names you ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/ultimate-michigan-pronunciation...

    Most everyone knows the C is silent and you pronounce this like the way the name Mackinaw City looks: "Mack-in-awe." 2. Sault Ste. Marie. The first word of this notable Upper Peninsula town trips ...

  4. Help:IPA/English - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English

    In many dialects, /r/ occurs only before a vowel; if you speak such a dialect, simply ignore /r/ in the pronunciation guides where you would not pronounce it, as in cart /kɑːrt/. In other dialects, /j/ ( y es) cannot occur after /t, d, n/ , etc., within the same syllable; if you speak such a dialect, then ignore the /j/ in transcriptions such ...

  5. Tuba - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuba

    The cimbasso is also seen instead of a tuba in the orchestral repertoire. The Italian word cimbasso, first appearing in the early 19th century, is thought to be a contraction used by musicians of the term corno basso or corno di basso (lit. ' bass horn '), sometimes appearing in scores as c. basso or c. in basso. [7]

  6. Sound correspondences between English accents - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_correspondences...

    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.

  7. X Æ A-Xii: How to pronounce the name of Elon Musk and ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/x-xii-pronounce-name-elon-220808978.html

    Grimes and Musk seem to have different ideas of how to pronounce the name. “It’s just X, like the letter X. Then AI. Like how you said the letter A then I,” Grimes said.

  8. Pronunciation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation

    Pronunciation is the way in which a word or a language is spoken. This may refer to generally agreed-upon sequences of sounds used in speaking a given word or language in a specific dialect ("correct" or "standard" pronunciation) or simply the way a particular individual speaks a word or language.

  9. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Pronunciation

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/...

    Speakers of non-rhotic accents, as in much of Australia, England, New Zealand, and Wales, will pronounce the second syllable [fəd], those with the father–bother merger, as in much of the US and Canada, will pronounce the first syllable [ˈɑːks], and those with the cot–caught merger but without the father–bother merger, as in Scotland ...