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  List of words of disputed pronunciation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(1) is the historical pronunciation and reflects the spelling; it is listed by all dictionaries.
This Scots word for lake is pronounced by most English speakers as (1), with a final [k], as the voiceless velar fricative [x] is not normally in the sound inventory of English.
(1) is the pronunciation insisted upon both by residents of the county town of Worcestershire in England and of Worcester, Massachusetts.
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 yawiki.org entry for English language
Many French words are also intelligible to an English speaker (though pronunciations are often quite different) because English absorbed a large vocabulary from French, via the Norman after the Norman Conquest and directly from French in further centuries.
Germanic words (which include all the basics such as pronouns and conjunctions) tend to be shorter than the Latinate words of English, and more common in ordinary speech.
However, the excessive use of Latinate words is considered by some to be either pretentious (as in the stereotypical policeman's talk of "apprehending the suspect") or an attempt to obfuscate an issue.
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 List of words of disputed pronunciation - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Local pronunciation in Kentucky is (2), although this may just reflect a local dialectal tendency to reduce unstressed [i]s to schwa.
(1) is the "correct" pronunciation (it is a trademark, and thus how it is to be pronounced can be defined by the trademark holder) (2) is listed in M-W, but it is marked as a disputed or substandard pronunciation.
(1), without either 'r' being pronounced, is the pronunciation insisted upon both by residents of the county town of Worcestershire in England and of Worcester, Massachusetts.
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 list of words
This is a list of words that have entered into the English language from the Turkic languages.
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The List of one letter words starting with A is a list of one letter words starting with A. First compiled by Samuel L. Johnson in 1756 and published on February 14 1759, it was...
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 DEBATE ON ARCHAISM OF SOME SELECT BANGANI WORDS
The paper is descriptive and not historical in nature and thus avoids to attempt to establish the archaism of the disputed words.
The word was prevalent in the verbal repertoire of all age groups ranging from 20 to 80 years old.
It was not very common word but nonetheless attested by old and young, especially by those whose fluency in second language was either marginal or for all practical purpose they were monolinguals.
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 Pronunciation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A word can be spoken in different ways by various individuals or groups, depending on many factors, such as the time in which they grew up, the area in which they grew up, the area in which they now live, their social class, and their education.
The way in which an individual pronounces words depends firstly on the basic units of sound (phones) that they use in their language.
The branch of linguistics which studies these units of sound is phonetics.
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 Wikinfo | Reich   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Reich is the German word for "realm" or "empire", cognate with Scandinavian rike.
Führer or Heil); the word "Reich" is usually not one of them, although in certain contexts it does carry a connotation of German imperialism.
The word is still used with the Reichstag building, which again, since 1999, houses the German federal parliament (today called Bundestag), and for the old Reichstag institution.
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 English_language information. LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
There are a number of words in English coined to describe forms of particular non-English languages that contain a very high proportion of English words - Franglais, for example, is used to describe French with a very high English content (spoken mostly in the border bilingual regions of Québec).
However, the excessive use of Latinate words is often considered to be either pretentiousness (as in the stereotypical policeman's talk of "apprehending the suspect") or obfuscation (as in a military document which says "neutralise" when it means "kill").
The words were considered very French borrowings when first used in English, even accused by some of being foreign phrases used where English alternatives would suffice, but today their French origin is largely forgotten.
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 Reich: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: )
It is the word traditionally used for a variety of sovereign entities, including Germany (Germany: A republic in central Europe; split into East German and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990) in many periods of its history.
Führer or Heil); the word "Reich" is usually not one of them, although in certain contexts it does carry a connotation of German imperialism (imperialism: A policy of extending your rule over foreign countries) and/or strong nationalism (nationalism: The doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other).
Since 1945, the the word Reich has not been used in contemporary references, though it is still found in the name of the Reichstag building (Reichstag building: the reichstag building in berlin was constructed as the place where the reichstag,...
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 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Qatar   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The pronunciation of Qatar in English varies; see list of words of disputed pronunciation for details.
So the closest pronunciation, according to English phonemics, to the original Arabic is /ˈɡɑd.ɚ/ or /ˈɡʌd.ɚ/.
Regional disputes however quickly compelled Qatar to resign and declare independence from the coalition that would evolve into the seven-imarat United Arab Emirates.
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 English language
However, the excessive use of Latinate words is often mistaken for either pretentiousness (as in the stereotypical policeman's talk of "apprehending the suspect") or obfuscation (as in a military document which says "neutralize" when it means "kill").
Written accents are also used occasionally in poetry and scripts for dramatic performances to indicate that a certain normally unstressed syllable in a word should be stressed for dramatic effect, or to keep with the meter of the poetry.
In certain older texts (typically in Commonwealth English), the use of ligatures is common in words such as archæology, œsophagus, and encyclopædia.
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 Wikipedia: English language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The voiceless velar fricative /x/ is used only by Scottish or Welsh speakers of English for Scots/Gaelic words such as loch /lɒx/ or by some speakers for loanwords from German and Hebrew like Bach /bax/ or Chanukah /xanuka/.
In some dialects such as Scouse (Liverpool) either [x] or the affricate [kx] may be used as an allophone of /k/ in words such as docker [dɒkxə].
There are many words of French origin in English, such as competition, art, table, publicity, police, role, routine, machine, force, and many others that have been and are being anglicised; they are now pronounced according to
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 English language - Psychology Wiki
Just as English itself has borrowed words from many different languages over its history, English loanwords now appear in a great many languages around the world, indicative of the technological and cultural influence wielded by English speakers.
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At the time of Voyager 2's passage in 1986, Uranus' south pole was pointed almost directly at the Sun.
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Words with special usage (e.g., slang), words from the English of a particular region (e.g., Scottish), or words with special uses in a particular field (e.g., law).
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The pronunciation of forte when used in this sense is disputed, with most people pronouncing it with two syllables, as IPA /̍fɔɹte/ SAMPA /"fOrte/, rather than like the word fort, which some insist is the only correct pronunciation.
The pronunciation of the other uses of the word are always the two-syllable pronunciation.
See List of words of disputed pronunciation for more about the dispute.
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 List of words of disputed pronunciation at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In some cases this is because of disagreement of how to pronounce borrowed foreign words; in others it is a dispute arising from the effect of spelling on a word not pronounced as it is spelled.
This Scottish word for lake is pronounced by most English speakers as (1), with a final [k], as the voiceless velar fricative [x] is not normally in the sound inventory of English.
Many dictionaries list (2) as an acceptable pronunciation, but all list (1) first.
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The second wave was of the Normans in the 11th century, who spoke a variety of French.
These two invasions caused English to become "creolised" to some degree (though it was never a full creole in the linguistic sense of the word); creolisation arises from the cohabitation of speakers of different languages, who develop a hybrid tongue for basic communication.
Engendered nouns are only apparent in special cases, such as "I loved that ship as if she were my own", where the noun "ship" is referred to by its feminine pronoun.
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In the November 2005 TOP500 list of supercomputers, the 2 fastest supercomputers in the world run Linux.
Users might have to switch application software, and there may be fewer options (as in the case of computer games) but there usually exists a replacement of at least sufficient quality, and general applications like spreadsheets, word processors, and browsers are available for Linux in profusion.
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 Cherokee Cousins
A listing of those Cherokees who enrolled to move from the Cherokee Nation, east (GA, NC, AL, and TN) to the west prior to the signing of the treaty of removal in 1835.
Included are lists of widows and children of Cherokees who died in the War of 1812, names of Cherokees and whites filing claims for loss of property, and names of Cherokee emigrating to the west.
Each Cherokee word is written in the Cherokee syllabary with its pronunciation and English translation; all Cherokee words are illustrated in a sentence.
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Although, in English, metric units of measurement are usually pronounced with the stress on the first syllable, as in /ˈkɪl.əˌmiː.tə(r)/, pronunciation of the word "kilometre" with the stress on the second syllable /kɪˈlÉ’m.ə.tə(r)/ is in common usage (see List of words of disputed pronunciation).
The latter pronunciation follows the stress pattern used for the names of measuring instruments, such as barometer, thermometer, tachometer and speedometer.
This stress pattern is not commonly used for other metric measurements such as millimetre or centimetre.
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 Qatar
Situated on a small peninsula off the larger Arabian Peninsula, it borders Saudi Arabia to the south and is otherwise surrounded by the Persian Gulf.
The pronunciation of Qatar in English varies; see List of words of disputed pronunciation.
Seven years later when the British officially announced that it would disengage (politically, not economically) from the Gulf in three years, Qatar joined Bahrain and seven other Trucial States in a federation.
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 Qatar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Regional disputes however quickly compelled Qatar to resign and declare independence from the coalition that would evolve into the seven-
list of words of disputed pronunciation for details.
So the closest pronunciation, according to English phonemics, to the original Arabic is /ˈɡɑd.ɚ/ or /ˈɡʌd.ɚ/.
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