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  2. List of PDF software - Wikipedia

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    A PDF creator and virtual PDF printer for Microsoft Windows PDF-XChange: Proprietary: Yes: PDF Tools allows creation of PDFs from many types of source input (images, scans, etc.). The PDF-XChange print driver allows printing directly to a PDF. A "lite" version of the print driver is free for non-commercial (home and academic) use. PrimoPDF ...

  3. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Pronunciation

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    This is because the names of the letters, numbers, and symbols can be spelled out in normal English orthography in a way that makes the pronunciation unambiguous across dialects. For example, Dead on arrival (DOA) may be better explained as "(an initialism: D-O-A)" rather than as the equally correct but less accessible / ˌ d iː ˌ oʊ ˈ eɪ /.

  4. List of shibboleths - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. 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.

  6. Spelling pronunciation - Wikipedia

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    The original pronunciation is reflected in, for example, the brand name "Tender Vittles". The pronunciation of waistcoat as waist-coat is now more common than the previous pronunciation / ˈ w ɛ s k ə t /. conduit, historically pronounced / ˈ k ɒ n d ɪ t / or / ˈ k ʌ n-/, is now nearly always pronounced / ˈ k ɒ n dj u ɪ t / in most of ...

  7. Heteronym (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Triple heteronyms are extremely rare in English; three examples, sin, mobile and does, are listed below. Proper nouns can sometimes be heteronyms. For example, the final syllable in the US state of Oregon is pronounced /-ə n / (or /-ɪ n /), while in the name of the village of Oregon in Wisconsin, the final syllable is pronounced /-ɒ n /.

  8. Phonological history of English - Wikipedia

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    An example of retained /sk/ is PG *aiskōną > OE ascian > ModE ask; there is evidence that OE ascian was sometimes rendered metathetized to acsian, which is the presumed origin of ModE ask (and also of the modern dialectal pronunciation ax). Palatal diphthongization: Initial palatal /j/, /tʃ/, /ʃ/ trigger spelling changes of a > ea, e > ie. [8]

  9. English Pronouncing Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    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.