Example sentences for: phonetic

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

  • 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.

  • But slips of the tongue, phonetic and spelling errors are the least of our word woes.

  • I have never understood why the International Phonetic Alphabet is not used in English dictionaries of all sorts, but this is beyond the scope of our remarks in this review.

  • The transcriptions are, mercifully, what phoneticians call “broad,” which provide the basic information needed to be able to reproduce the pronunciation, as compared with “narrow,” in which detailed phonetic features are reflected that are useful for specialists but clutter up the field for ordinary users.

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


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