Example sentences for: pronunciation

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

  • As Welsh's book has a list under PRONUNCIATION, I looked there, to no avail.

  • The fact that there is no distinction in the British pronunciation of some words, such as sword/sawed , that I pronounce differently supports my idea that my English is phonemically fuller than even cultivated British speech.

  • Inevitably, there are the inconveniences and the oddities: the pronunciation of masochistic or masochistically , thus depriving the user of the information that the stresses have shifted.

  • Although it might be seen as commendable to make the interpretation of pronunciation symbols as easy as possible for the laziest users, I have little sympathy for the policy: in most cases, those who are too lazy to learn even the rudimentary respelling systems used in popular dictionaries (like the various college and desk dictionaries) are also too lazy to look up the pronunciation of a name or word, as is evidenced daily in the utterances of newscasters and announcers.

  • Many people now seem to live in a hice rather than a house, and this pronunciation is by no means confined to Royalty and the aristocracy, speakers of the famed Received Pronunciation Plus.


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