Example sentences for: pronunciation

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

  • One professional British lexicographer told me, categorically, that no one uses the - tch - pronunciation in Britain, where it would be regarded as wrong or pedantic.

  • Gove did not participate in the planning or appear on the program, although two of his colleagues gave papers, Woolf on defining and Artin on pronunciation.

  • I have also noticed a sharp acceleration in the decline of dialectal usages, less in pronunciation than in vocabulary: I find that many people in my own county of Suffolk, for example, no longer know dialect words and expressions that were universal currency as recently as the 1950s.

  • In 1952, on the recommendation of an internal committee set up to consider the desirability of the ABC's making some departure from BBC practice, the Standing Committee on Pronunciation was established to (and the wording is historic) advise the Corporation on the most acceptable pronunciation of those words for which [the] current Australian pronunciation differs from the pronunciation recorded by Daniel Jones.

  • There are not many sources that come readily to hand offering pronunciations of Tán Bó Cualinge . The choice of entry is eclectic: Kotex is in, but not Tampax (no pun); many common names whose pronunciations are unlikely to be in doubt are in also: Kennedy, Johnson (though the Swedish author ought to remain), John (with a French pronunciation shown), John Bull, John Doe (but not Richard Roe), Heston, Hicks , etc.


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