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  2. I before E except after C - Wikipedia

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    So, although seize and heinous (if you pronounce it with /iː/ rather than /eɪ/) are exceptions, heifer, leisure with /e/ ≡ ei or rein, vein with /eɪ/ ≡ ei are not exceptions; ie is not a usual spelling of /e/ or /eɪ/. As to the usefulness of the rule, he says: [28] Such rules are warnings against common pitfalls for the unwary.

  3. Traditional English pronunciation of Latin - Wikipedia

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    At the end of a syllable, i.e. between a vowel and a consonant, or after a vowel at the end of a word, it is dropped—though not without, frequently, affecting the pronunciation of the previous vowel sound.

  4. English orthography - Wikipedia

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    In these cases, a given morpheme (i.e., a component of a word) has a fixed spelling even though it is pronounced differently in different words. An example is the past tense suffix - ed , which may be pronounced variously as /t/ , /d/ , or /ᵻd/ [ a ] (for example, pay / ˈ p eɪ / , payed / ˈ p eɪ d / , hate / ˈ h eɪ t / , hated / ˈ h ...

  5. Phonics - Wikipedia

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    Reading by using phonics is often referred to as decoding words, sounding-out words or using print-to-sound relationships.Since phonics focuses on the sounds and letters within words (i.e. sublexical), [13] it is often contrasted with whole language (a word-level-up philosophy for teaching reading) and a compromise approach called balanced literacy (the attempt to combine whole language and ...

  6. International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The stave was introduced with the 1989 Kiel Convention, as was the option of placing a staved letter after the word or syllable, while retaining the older conventions. There are therefore six ways to transcribe pitch/tone in the IPA: i.e., é , ˦e , e˦ , ꜓e , e꜓ and ˉe for a high pitch/tone.

  7. How do you pronounce ‘Nvidia’? Here’s how to say the $3 ...

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    Most of the world’s top corporations have simple names. Steve Jobs named Apple while on a fruitarian diet, and found the name "fun, spirited and not intimidating." Plus, it came before Atari in ...

  8. Pronunciation - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. This is the right way to pronounce Cannes - AOL

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    The correct way to say the French town includes dropping, well, basically everything: The "c" in the beginning turns into a "k" and the "s" at the end is silent. Some say that "a" becomes an "e ...