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The historically original pronunciation is an alveolar trill , with the alveolar tap as a common allophone. The uvular trill is a common alternative, found particularly in the central and southern dialect areas. Uvular pronunciations appear to be gaining ground in the Randstad. [16]
The word onomatopoeia, with rarer spelling variants like onomatopeia and onomatopœia, is an English word from the Ancient Greek compound ὀνοματοποιία, onomatopoiía, meaning 'name-making', composed of ὄνομα, ónoma, meaning "name"; [4] and ποιέω, poiéō, meaning "making".
Roughly like Edward with the d removed: E'ward, or Cockney pronunciation of -ell in words like well, hell. ey /e.ɨ̯/ /e.ɪ/ Two distinct vowels. iw /ɪu̯/ /ɪu̯/ not usually present in English except in the interjection Ew!; closest to 'i-oo' (short i). A small number of English dialects have this sound in words that have "ew" or "ue".
Shure Brothers microphone, model 55S, multi-impedance "Small Unidyne" dynamic from 1951. A microphone, colloquially called a mic (/ m aɪ k /), [1] or mike, [a] is a transducer that converts sound into an electrical signal.
Heteronym pronunciation may vary in vowel realisation, in stress pattern, or in other ways. "Heterophone" literally just means "different sound", and this term is sometimes applied to words that are just pronounced differently, irrespective of their spelling.
SG equivalent of En Patrick, Peter [24] (both En names are etymologically unrelated to one another). SG Peadar is used for the name of the saint (Saint Peter). Pàra, Pàdair are SG dialectal forms. [24] Para is a contracted form. [49] Pàdruig Patrick [54] Pàl Paul [52] See also SG Pòl. Pàra Patrick [24] Dialectal form of SG Pàdraig. [24 ...
In Semitic philology, there is a long-standing tradition of rendering Semitic ayin with the Greek rough breathing mark ῾ (e.g. ῾arab عَرَب Arabs).Depending on typography, this could look similar to either an articulate single opening quotation mark ʻ (e.g. ʻarab عَرَب). or as a raised semi-circle open to the right ʿ (e.g. ʿarab عَرَب).
The most logical use of th is to represent a consonant cluster of the phonemes /t/ and /h/, as in English knighthood.This is not a digraph, since a digraph is a pair of letters representing a single phoneme or a sequence of phonemes that does not correspond to the normal values of the separate characters.