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and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. There are a variety of pronunciations in Modern English and in historical forms of the language...

also list of Latin words with English derivatives. When the stress is moved, the pronunciation of words often changes in other ways as well, especially...

§ Brackets and transcription delimiters. A pronunciation respelling for English is a notation used to convey the pronunciation of words in the English language...

Fowler's Modern English Usage (1965), "the correct term is 'the Received Pronunciation'. The word 'received' conveys its original meaning of 'accepted'...

wide variation in pronunciation, both historically and from dialect to dialect. In general, however, the regional dialects of English share a largely...

spelling patterns of their languages of origin or residues of proposals by scholars in the early period of Modern English to follow the spelling patterns of...

five fundamentally different meanings). Some letters in English provide information about the pronunciation of other letters in the word. Rollings (2004)...

different meanings in British and American English: A–L. For the second portion of the list, see List of words having different meanings in American and British...

wet?" meaning "Is it going to rain?", "hurrieder" meaning "faster", and "dippy eggs/ecks" meaning "over-easy or soft-boiled eggs". Lunenburg English, a dialect...

Received Pronunciation, the prestige variety of British English. Consequently, this speaking style also became associated with certain Hollywood actors in that...

Modern English spelling, although pronunciation has changed considerably since that time. Middle English was succeeded in England by Early Modern English, which...

as [ful] or [fʊl], and "good" (/ɡʊd/), pronounced as [ɡud] or [ɡʊd]. This variation aligns with historical pronunciation patterns in seventeenth-century...

§ Brackets and transcription delimiters. English in Southern England (also, rarely, Southern English English; Southern England English; or in the UK, simply...

American English has become the most influential form of English worldwide. Varieties of American English include many patterns of pronunciation, vocabulary...

in English orthography and notorious for its unpredictable pronunciation. It has at least eight pronunciations in North American English and nine in British...

spelled ⟨maté⟩ in English, adding an accent which, in Spanish, changes the pronunciation and meaning of the word (maté meaning "I killed" in Spanish). However...

the typical pattern, or one of the typical patterns, of the language to which it belongs. A verb whose conjugation follows a different pattern is called...

directly from the tê pronunciation in Min Chinese. The third form chai (meaning "spiced tea") originated from a northern Chinese pronunciation of cha, which...

Irregular verbs typically followed more regular patterns at a previous stage in the history of English. In particular, many such verbs derive from Germanic...

some characters, as used in Japanese and Chinese, have similar meanings and pronunciations, others have meanings or pronunciations that are unique to one...