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The Hermitage garage by Nicholas II in The State Hermitage, Saint Petersburg, Russia Garage - in the style of the new objectivity - Frankfurt am Main A 1901 newspaper article discussing a name for a private collection of automobiles, which mentions the word "garage" as being a possible choice except that that word was already in use in the broader sense of a place to store and repair them.
A garage is a covered structure built for the purpose of parking, storing, protecting, maintaining, and/or repairing vehicles.Specific applications include: Garage (residential), a building or part of a building for storing one or more vehicles
For a list of homographs with different pronunciations (heteronyms) see Heteronym (linguistics). This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items.
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.
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.
Differences in pronunciation between American English (AmE) and British English (BrE) can be divided into . differences in accent (i.e. phoneme inventory and realisation).See differences between General American and Received Pronunciation for the standard accents in the United States and Britain; for information about other accents see regional accents of English.
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.
The pronunciation task force aims to supply short recordings of difficult-to-pronounce terms. These recordings will supplement the IPA transcriptions recommended by Wikipedia:Manual of Style (pronunciation) and described in Help:IPA/English .