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/ ˈ ɡ r æ n d b r ɪ t / Australia: Greenough: GREN-uf / ˈ ɡ r ɛ n ʌ f / New Zealand: Greymouth: GRAY-mouth / ˈ ɡ r eɪ m aʊ θ / not GRAY-məth / ˈ ɡ r eɪ m ə θ / Australia: Gumeracha: GUM-ə-RAK-ə / ˌ ɡ ʌ m ə ˈ r æ k ə / Australia: Indooroopilly: IN-drə-PIH-lee / ˌ ɪ n d r ə ˈ p ɪ l i / Ireland: Inistioge: in-ish ...
In 1417, Henry V began using English, which had no standardised spelling, for official correspondence instead of Latin or French which had standardised spelling, e.g. Latin had one spelling for right (rectus), Old French as used in English law had six and Middle English had 77. This motivated writers to standardise English spelling, an effort ...
Personal names and surnames may be pronounced like a standard English word, but with different spelling: "balance" and "John Ballance"; "war" and "Evelyn Waugh" (if spoken with a non-rhotic accent); "marshal" and "George Marshall"; "chaplain" and "Charlie Chaplin". Personal names do, of course, generally start with a capital letter.
Whenever the most common spelling in English-language reliable sources is the person's real name, or the name with the diacritical marks simply omitted, the proper name (with the diacritics) is normally used. Exceptions include some historical persons (as foreign personal names were often anglicized in the past) and naturalized citizens who ...
/ ˌ r ɛ n s ə ˈ l ɪər / Name of multiple places Rhea County: RAY / r eɪ / Riga, New York: RY-gə / ˈ r aɪ ɡ ə / Rio: RY-oh / ˈ r aɪ oʊ / In Florida and Wisconsin Rio Grande, Ohio: RY-oh GRAND / ˌ r aɪ oʊ ˈ ɡ r æ n d / Ronkonkoma: ron-KONG-kə-mə / r ɒ n ˈ k ɒ ŋ k ə m ə / Ruch: ROOSH / r uː ʃ / Russia, Ohio: ROOSH-ee ...
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