Example sentences for: pronunciations

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

  • General dictionaries show pronunciations, it is true, but not in the depth displayed in this work [ LPD ], rarely with its precision, and almost never with both American and British pronunciations side by side.

  • Yet macho is uttered with a - tch -, possibly to distinguish it from one of the pronunciations of the word for a variety of shark.

  • My French mother, who has lived in English-speaking environments since 1947, still uses the French pronunciations and expressions from that period, to the great amusement of her younger relatives.

  • The lilting rhythms and pronunciations of each regional Indian language are characteristic of the Inglish spoken there.

  • Fowler's A Dictionary of Modern English Usage . He moved on from Fowler's following of the big Oxford English Dictionary in allowing both pronunciations but with preference for “skoan.”


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