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Cleyera is a plant genus consisting of 21 species [1] of tender, evergreen shrubs to small trees, mostly native to Mexico and Central America, and one from Eastern Asia. In the APG III system it is placed in the family Pentaphylacaceae .
Cleyera japonica (sakaki) is a flowering evergreen tree native to warm areas of Japan, Taiwan, China, Myanmar, Nepal, and northern India (Min and Bartholomew 2015). It can reach a height of 10 m. It can reach a height of 10 m.
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs , which are written differently but pronounced the same).
For a list of homographs with different pronunciations (heteronyms) see Heteronym (linguistics). This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items.
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Sprague – Japanese ternstoemia, cleyera; Ternstroemia heptasepala – saintedwood; Ternstroemia howardiana Kobuski; Ternstroemia landae Standl. & L.O.Williams; Ternstroemia lineata DC. Ternstroemia luquillensis Krug & Urb. – palo colorado; Ternstroemia maclellandiana Ridl. Ternstroemia peduncularis – copey vera; Ternstroemia penangiana Choisy
Thomas Jefferson University is apologizing after the names of some graduates from the nursing program were unrecognizably pronounced at their commencement, as seen in videos from the ceremony that ...
CMUdict provides a mapping orthographic/phonetic for English words in their North American pronunciations. It is commonly used to generate representations for speech recognition (ASR), e.g. the CMU Sphinx system, and speech synthesis (TTS), e.g. the Festival system.