Jun 14, 2012 · There’s no simple answer to any question of the form “How is <letter>/<digraph> pronounced?” It depends. As you’ll have seen in the Wikipedia article, what would have been …

Apr 3, 2024 · How can I pronounce @ symbol: At / At the rate? The "at mark", "at sign", or "at symbol" is its usual name. According to Wikipedia its official name is "commercial at". Can I …

As for why the word pronounce has an O between the two N’s and pronunciation does not, it is unclear, but both words derive from French, pronunciation from pronunciation and pronounce …

Dec 6, 2014 · 'Lieutenant' comes from French lieu ('place') and tenant ('holding'). Some sources claim that 'lieutenant' had alternative spellings such as leftenant, leftenaunt, lieftenant, …

On page 27 of Mastering Regular Expressions, Jeffrey Friedl states:. Instead, I normally use "regex." It just rolls right off the tongue ("it rhymes with "FedEx," with a hard g sound like …

Jul 21, 2017 · In India, we [typically] pronounce "of" as "of" or "off". But the real pronunciation is "ov". When I try to listen the same in Google dictionary, it indeed sounds like "ov" :-). But I am …

May 23, 2019 · There is a marked effort to pronounce "ehn". Most people say "BUT'n": no release of the T-stop, with a glottal stop between the t and the n. The pronunciation I "recently" noticed …

Jul 11, 2012 · Could someone explain how, exactly, this question is off topic? The FAQ states pronunciation questions are on topic, does not explicitly say anything to indicate how to talk …

I hear three different sounds for the letter e in precious, bean, and Peru. Is there a rule that covers the different pronunciations that a written letter e can represent in speech?

May 29, 2019 · (a) there are apparently a small number of English speakers who have three different phonemes: /i:/, /i/, /ɪ/. Given the number of people where this happens, it should have …