Example sentences for: pronunciation

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

  • Of some complexity in English is the pronunciation of r: it disappears entirely in syllable-final and preconsonantal positions in some dialects of English ( harbor /häb\?

  • Other articles include “Is George Bush a Wimp ?,” “The Moving Spray Can” (on graffiti in England), “On the Pronunciation of Cunnilingus in Dictionaries,” and numerous others on a wide variety of subjects; these are interspersed with short bits and pieces, cartoons, and asides generally attributed to “Folklore” and, presumably, gathered by the editor.

  • As Mairie Robinson, editor-in-chief of The Concise Scots Dictionary (Aberdeen University Press, 1985), points out in her Introduction, Scots is more strongly differentiated from Standard English than any of the English regional dialects in the number of words, meanings of words and expressions not current in Standard English, in its strikingly different pronunciation, and in the loyal affection with which the Scottish people continue to embrace it.

  • I doubt that the Italian pronunciation of Rodrigo is /\?

  • I fear that there is a great deal more to the question of spelling and pronunciation than has been allowed for.


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