Example sentences for: pronounce

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

  • In my English, as in that of most Americans, bawd/bored/board, sword/sawed/ soared , and or/oar/awe/ore are not homophones; I pronounce bawd/sawed differently from board and or/oar/ore differently from awe .

  • Speakers of other dialects would pronounce the characters differently but would associate the same meaning with the sentence.

  • ' (Another example of an anti-intellectualism is the expression between a rock and a hard place -- that is “a rock” and not “Iraq,” regardless of current events -- which I take to be a corruption of between Scylla and Charybdis , neither of which is easy to pronounce from its spelling.

  • For instance, the British use the word machismo (but pronounce it, almost invariably, as if it were a loanword from Italian, with a - k -where the Spanish has a - tch -).

  • It is a contraction of gung-yeh ho-dzo , `industrial cooperation, 'and it caught on because it is easy to pronounce, as in 'Nam or the States . 'Nam by itself is no more derogatory or misleading than shortening airplane or telephone or gung-ho .


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