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pronunciation
[ pruh-nuhn-see-ey-shuhn ]
noun
- the act or result of producing the sounds of speech, including articulation, stress, and intonation, often with reference to some standard of correctness or acceptability:
They are arguing about the pronunciation of “forte” again.
His pronunciation retains charming traces of his early years in Ireland.
- an accepted standard of the sound and stress patterns of a syllable, word, phrase, etc.:
He said the pronunciation of “curl” is kɜrlkurl not kɔɪlkoil
- the conventional patterns of treatment of the sounds of a language:
the pronunciation of French.
- a phonetic transcription of a given word, sound, etc.:
The pronunciation of “pheasant” is ˈfɛzəntfezuhnt
- Rare. an act or instance of declaring publicly; pronouncement:
It was but the latest pronunciation of the political double-standard uttered in the course of this scandal.
Synonyms: , , , , , , ,
- Obsolete.
- elocution or delivery.
- elegant speech; oratory.
- an act or instance of speaking.
pronunciation
/ əˌʌԲɪˈɪʃə /
noun
- the act, instance, or manner of pronouncing sounds
- the supposedly correct manner of pronouncing sounds in a given language
- a phonetic transcription of a word
Pronunciation Note
Other yvlog Forms
- ·Գܲc·tDz· ·Գܲ···ٴ· [pr, uh, -, nuhn, -see-, uh, -tawr-ee, -tohr-ee], ·Գܲc·t adjective
- ԴDzp·Գܲc·tDz noun
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of pronunciation1
Example Sentences
I hated the difficulty attached to its pronunciation.
Trump mentioned Mexico 13 times in that speech, his pronunciation dripping with disdain every time.
But, as he explains, the correct pronunciation isn’t the real point.
"To communicate, the Africans borrowed some vocabulary from the British and incorporated their own pronunciation and syntax to form a pidgin thing. Over the generations, it became perfected and developed structure and grammar."
Olsen: There’s been some controversy around the film from the use of AI in correcting the Hungarian pronunciation of some of the performers.
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