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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).
Porter would frequently return to the list song form, notable examples include "You're the Top" from the 1934 musical Anything Goes, [25] [26] [27] "Friendship", one of Porter's wittiest list songs, from DuBarry Was a Lady, [28]: 483 and "Farming" and "Let's Not Talk About Love" both from Let's Face It!
If the pronunciation in a specific accent is desired, square brackets may be used, perhaps with a link to IPA chart for English dialects, which describes several national standards, or with a comment that the pronunciation is General American, Received Pronunciation, Australian English, etc. Local pronunciations are of particular interest in ...
Also the city in New Hampshire Leicester, Massachusetts: like Lester / ˈ l ɛ s t ər / [n 19] Leicester, Vermont: LY-stər / ˈ l aɪ s t ər / Lemhi County: LEM-hy / ˈ l ɛ m h aɪ / Lemoore: lə-MOR / l ə ˈ m ɔːr / Colloquial pronunciation LEE-mor / ˈ l iː m ɔːr / Official pronunciation Leominster: LEM-in-stər / ˈ l ɛ m ɪ n s t ...
The city of Cartagena, Colombia, is very commonly pronounced as if it were spelled Cartageña . The South American beverage, mate, is frequently spelled maté in English, adding an acute accent (as in 'café') to indicate that the word has two syllables and is not pronounced like the English word mate (/ ˈ m eɪ t /).
A weatherman in the U.K. wowed viewers this week by rattling off the name with perfect pronunciation. Actress Naomi Watts went viral earlier this year when she flawlessly pronounced the name on ...
The nuqta, and the phonological distinction it represents, is sometimes ignored in practice; e.g., क़िला qilā being simply spelled as किला kilā.In the text Dialect Accent Features for Establishing Speaker Identity, Manisha Kulshreshtha and Ramkumar Mathur write, "A few sounds, borrowed from the other languages like Persian and Arabic, are written with a dot (bindu or nuqtā).
Jambi" is a song by American rock band Tool. The song was released as a single and the second track from their fourth studio album 10,000 Days . It was made officially available for radio airplay on February 12, 2007.