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2. American and British English pronunciation differences

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   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.

3. Heteronym (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   resume / r ɪ ˈ zj uː m / verb to start again / ˈ r ɛ zj ʊ m eɪ / noun curriculum vitae (sometimes distinguished with acute accents; résumé) retreat / r ɪ ˈ t r iː t / verb to fall back from a battle front / r iː ˈ t r iː t / verb to treat again (some style guides specify a hyphen for this sense, to increase clarity: re-treat ...

4. Lexical set - Wikipedia

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   The standard lexical sets for English introduced by John C. Wells in his 1982 Accents of English are in wide usage. Wells defined each lexical set on the basis of the pronunciation of words in two reference accents, which he calls RP and GenAm. [6] "RP" refers to Received Pronunciation, the traditionally prestigious accent in England. [7]

5. 96 Shortcuts for Accents and Symbols: A Cheat Sheet

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   The post 96 Shortcuts for Accents and Symbols: A Cheat Sheet appeared first on Reader's Digest. ... Like the alt keys on a Windows keyboard, the two opt keys are situated to the left and right of ...

6. Diacritic - Wikipedia

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   Other examples are the acute and grave accents, which can indicate that a vowel is to be pronounced differently than is normal in that position, for example not reduced to /ə/ or silent as in the case of the two uses of the letter e in the noun résumé (as opposed to the verb resume) and the help sometimes provided in the pronunciation of ...

7. English terms with diacritical marks - Wikipedia

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   Some sources distinguish "diacritical marks" (marks upon standard letters in the A–Z 26-letter alphabet) from "special characters" (letters not marked but radically modified from the standard 26-letter alphabet) such as Old English and Icelandic eth (Ð, ð) and thorn (uppercase Þ, lowercase þ), and ligatures such as Latin and Anglo-Saxon Æ (minuscule: æ), and German eszett (ß; final ...