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1. www.merriam-webster.com › assets › mwGuide to Pronunciation - Merriam-Webster

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   Many speakers will insert \ \ after \ \ when it precedes \l\. Additionally, some speakers pronounce \ \ and \i\ identically before \l\, with the result that word pairs like heel and hill are homophones. The sound pronounced in such cases may be either \ \ or \i\ as pronounced by those who distinguish the two. \ e \.

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   Using Merriam-Webster Online. Citing the Dictionary and Other Online Sources; FAQ: Audio Pronunciations; FAQ: Words and Dictionaries; Merriam-Webster Reference Help. Pronunciation Key: Quick Reference; Pronunciation Full Guide: PDF download; Explanatory Notes to the Dictionary; Explanatory Notes to the Thesaurus; Merriam-Webster Mobile App Help

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   How do you pronounce a syllable?

   • Key to Pronunciation Pronunciation Model Some consonants can take the function of the vowel in unstressed syllables. Where necessary, a syllabic marker diacritic is used, hence petal /ˈpɛd (ə)l/ but petally/ˈpɛdl̩.i//. The symbol ˈ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that the syllable is pronounced with primary stress.

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   • YourDictionary provides both written pronunciation guides and audio clips to help you understand how to pronounce unfamiliar words. YourDictionary utilizes symbols from three authoritative sources to create these pronunciation guides: Webster’s New World College Dictionary, the American Heritage Dictionary, and the International Phonetic Alphabet.

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   How is Ä pronounced?

   • In U.S. speech \\ä\\ is pronounced with little or no rounding of the lips, and it is fairly long in du-ration, especially before voiced consonants. In southern England \\ä\\ is usually accompanied by some lip rounding and is relatively short in duration. The vowel \\ \\ generally has appreciable lip rounding.

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   Is pronunciation an intrinsic component of a DIC-tionary?

   • Pronunciation is not an intrinsic component of the dic-tionary. For some languages, such as Spanish, Swahili, and Finnish, the correspondence between orthography and pronunciation is so close that a dictionary need only spell a word correctly to indicate its pronunciation.

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4. www.oed.com › us-english-pronunciationsUS English Pronunciations - Oxford English Dictionary

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   CDP and its descendant, the Routledge Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English (Upton & Kretzschmar 2017, hereafter RDP) continue to be key sources for U.S. English, along with American sources such as Merriam-Webster, and the U.S. pronunciations in the pronouncing dictionaries of Wells (2008) and Jones et al. (2011).

5. en.wiktionary.org › Appendix:English_pronunciationAppendix:English pronunciation - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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   The following tables show the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and the English pronunciation (enPR) or American Heritage Dictionary (AHD) symbols that are used to represent the various sounds of the English language. The sounds of Received Pronunciation (RP, UK), General American pronunciation (GenAm, US), Canadian English (CanE), Australian E...

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   Appendix:Pronunciation list of English words

   Wikipedia's article on English phonology

   Wikipedia's IPA chart for English dialects (and for conversion to ASCII, the SAMPA chart for English)

   Wikipedia's article on Pronunciation respelling for English

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   Gimson, A. C. (1980) An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English, 3rd edn. edition, London: Edward Arnold, →ISBN

   Kenyon, John Samuel (1950) American Pronunciation, 10th edn. edition, Ann Arbor: George Wahr

   Kenyon, John S.; Thomas A. Knott (1944/1953) A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, →ISBN

   Wells, J. C. (2000) Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, 2nd edn. edition, Harlow, Essex: Pearson Education Limited, →ISBN

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   Learning the IPA for English, (Standard American English)

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   Pronunciation symbols are printed in roman type and all other information, such as labels and notes, is printed in italics. \ˈˌ\. A high-set stress mark precedes a syllable with primary (strongest) stress; a low-set mark precedes a syllable with secondary (medium) stress; a third level of weak stress requires no mark at all: \ˈpen-mən ...

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   A key to understanding the pronunciation of dictionary words. ... This pronunciation key outlines how to pronounce the letters and symbols in these systems, with ...