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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.
Havre de Grace, Maryland: HAV-ər də GRAYSS / ˈ h æ v ər d ə ˈ ɡ r eɪ s / Helena, Alabama: hə-LEE-nə / h ə ˈ l iː n ə / Hereford, Texas: HUR-fərd / ˈ h ɜːr f ər d / Also a place in Pennsylvania Hindman, Kentucky: HIM-ən / ˈ h ɪ m ən / [n 12] Hochheim, Texas: HOH-hyme / ˈ h oʊ h aɪ m / Hockessin, Delaware: HOH-kess-in ...
Locals, however, pronounce the name as /ˈskuːkəl/ SKOO-kəl. The US state of Oregon is home to a county, city, river, bay, state forest, museum, Native American tribe, and dairy processing company called Tillamook. Residents pronounce it as / ˈ t ɪ l ə m ʊ k /, while nonresidents often mistakenly say / ˈ t ɪ l ə m uː k /. [74]
Nevadans pronounce the second syllable with the "a" as in "trap" (/ n ɪ ˈ v æ d ə /) while some people from outside of the state can pronounce it with the "a" as in "palm" (/ n ɪ ˈ v ɑː d ə /). [36] Although many Americans interpret the latter back vowel as being closer to the Spanish pronunciation, it is not the pronunciation used by ...
An Indiana school bus driver was busted for allegedly driving under the influence — with some of the 32 kids on her bus calling in to report her driving them erratically, authorities said.
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.
After palatal consonants (/ʃ tʃ ʒ dʒ/), whether original or resulting from the merger of /j/ and the preceding consonant, in both stressed and unstressed syllables; e.g. /dʒ/: junior, Julius, Jupiter, cæsura, educator, spatula, fistula; After the following consonants when they precede u in an initial, final, or stressed syllable:
Navarro Tomás, Tomás (1939), "Desdoblamiento de fonemas vocálicos", Revista de Filología Hispánica, 1: 165– 167; Navarro Tomás, Tomás (2004), Manual de pronunciación española (28th ed.), Madrid: Concejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, ISBN 9788400070960; Penny, Ralph J. (2000). Variation and change in Spanish. Cambridge ...