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But slips of the tongue, phonetic and spelling errors are the least of our word woes.
In England before the 1600s, th in Hebrew and Classical words and names such as these was pronounced as plain t after the French fashion, as is still the case with Thomas: Tom and the other nicknames in this set are partly just phonetic spellings of the old sounds of the full names.
When the Chinese were confronted with the problem of expressing foreign terms and names, as happened on a large scale with the introduction of Buddhism in the first century A.D., they did so by further extending the use of Chinese characters as phonetic symbols.
A number of people noted that a phonetic yadda yadda , no etymological relation to the term under discussion, is commonly heard in Japan as an expression roughly synonymous with "yuck."
Green is correct in writing that the (unabridged Funk & Wagnalls) Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1893) gives two pronunciations for each entry, but he is mistaken in reporting that one represents the popular pronunciation, the other showing the precise one [p.364]: there are two pronunciations because one employs a more popular, presumably understandable pronunciation key (called, in the phonetics trade, a broad transcription) while the other cleaves to a scholarly transcription (called a narrow transcription); if such a pattern were followed today, the first would be the simplified system used generally in most dictionaries and the second would employ the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet (which, for their more recondite transcriptions, require a trained phonetician for their understanding).
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