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Toot or Tut, Markazi, a village in Iran; Mount Victoria Tunnel, a road tunnel in Wellington, New Zealand, colloquially known as "Toot Tunnel" Toot Oilfield, an oil field in northern Pakistan; Toot Sahib, a temple in Amritsar, Punjab, India
toot – Stupid/silly [person]. towkay / tow kay – (From Hokkien 頭家 / 头家 thâu-ke ) head of the house, or the company; which is also borrowed into Malay tauke , meaning Boss. tsai / zai – (From Hokkien 在 tsāi lit.
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).
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.
Square brackets are used with phonetic notation, whether broad or narrow [17] – that is, for actual pronunciation, possibly including details of the pronunciation that may not be used for distinguishing words in the language being transcribed, but which the author nonetheless wishes to document. Such phonetic notation is the primary function ...
Suzie Toot. In what even she clearly thinks is a half-serious joke, Suzie tells EW that she is undisputedly "the most fashionable queen on season 17," but when we asked each of her sisters for a ...
For example, you may pronounce cot and caught, do and dew, or marry and merry the same. This often happens because of dialect variation (see our articles English phonology and International Phonetic Alphabet chart for English dialects). If this is the case, you will pronounce those symbols the same for other words as well. [1]
Toots, a character in Bunty, a British comic anthology; Toots, one of The Bash Street Kids, a comic strip in the British comic book The Beano; Toots, a title character of Toots and Casper, an American comic strip