Example sentences for: phonetic

How can you use “phonetic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A comparison with some other languages, particularly languages with a largely phonetic spelling system--(German, Italian, Spanish)-- shows that this range of nonstandard spellings is an added bonus that our quirky English spelling system has given to the language.

  • Chinese has no sound for /ki/; ji is a phonetic adaptation.

  • For example: kith and kin, wrack and ruin ; in German: mit Kind und Kegel, drauf und dran ; in French: sain et sauf . Alongside such fixed combinations, which seem to adhere to their own rhythmic and phonetic rules, are the playful, nonsensical, purely rhythmical and melodious formulations, which distinctly recall the ancient incantatory cantillations characteristic of Egyptian, Greek, and Roman and latterday hocus pocus.

  • Or maybe some sounds will never have absolute phonetic accuracy bestowed on them, as in ring —or is it rrring , or some other sound altogether?

  • L 's set of symbols is somewhat closer to that of the International Phonetic Alphabet; W follows the system used in the Third Unabridged , which is too complicated for my taste, being replete with diacritics.


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