Example sentences for: pronounceable

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

  • ' Although the editor mentions pronounceable acronyms in his Preface, users would be at a loss to determine that UN and R.A.F . are not pronounced but that R.A.D.A . (Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts “RAHdah”), UNICEF, U.N.C.L.E ., and Pan-Am are; worse, the showing of radar as RADAR (for `radio detecting and ranging') and sonar as SONAR (`sound navigation and ranging') is in outright error.

  • Professor Honey, an English linguist now on assignment in Bophuthatswana, one of the less easily pronounceable places in the world, writes in a straightforward, simple, casual, friendly style totally devoid of the off-putting symbols and technical jargon that usually mark writing on pronunciation.

  • In an earlier issue of VERBATIM writers have commented on what have come to be called bacronyms, names of companies, products, charities, and other institutions that have been chosen solely because their acronyms yield words that are pronounceable, meaningful, or both.

  • Subsequent deletions and additions (Postmaster General, out; Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, Energy, Education, in) would yield stdaiaclhhtee , not really the most pronounceable acronym, at least to speakers of English.


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