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An argosy is a merchant ship, [1] [2] or a fleet of such ships. As used by Shakespeare (e.g., in King Henry VI , Part 3, Act 2, Scene VI; in the Merchant of Venice , Act 1, Scene I and Scene III; and in The Taming of the Shrew , Act 2, Scene I), the word means a flotilla of merchant ships operating together under the same ownership.
Argo by Konstantinos Volanakis (1837–1907). In Greek mythology, the Argo (/ ˈ ɑːr ɡ oʊ / AR-goh; Ancient Greek: Ἀργώ, romanized: Argṓ) was the ship of Jason and the Argonauts.
This is a set of lists of English personal and place names having spellings that are counterintuitive to their pronunciation because the spelling does not accord with conventional pronunciation associations. Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages.
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.
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Argosy Foundation, formerly the Abele Family Charitable Trust; Argosy Gaming Company, a former American casino operator; Argosy Empress Casino, a riverboat casino; Argosy Pictures, John Ford's film company; Argosy Property Limited, a company listed on the New Zealand stock exchange; Argosy University, educational institutions in North America
A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English, also referred to as Kenyon and Knott, was first published by the G. & C. Merriam Company in 1944, and written by John Samuel Kenyon and Thomas A. Knott. It provides a phonemic transcription of General American pronunciations of words, using symbols largely corresponding to those of the IPA .