Example sentences for: pronunciations

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

  • As mentioned, the pronunciations are British: the variant pronunciation of controversy , in which the stress is on the (shortened) second syllable, is shown, but that is not heard in the US; neither is the given pronunciation of intermediary , which ends \?\ in BE but /\?

  • Full coverage would also require accurate pronunciations for each name, with sensitivity to local preferences (e.g.

  • The boldface headwords, alas in sansserif type (making it difficult to read words like Pilling, pillion, pilliwinkle, Illinois , etc., because the lower-case i resembles lower-case l , which is hard to distinguish from capital I ), are followed by pronunciations printed in blue, with variants in black, an expensive but worthwhile idea that works if you are not reading in a dim light.

  • It was concerned with the maintenance of standard English pronunciations as those then believed to be most suitable for broadcasting.

  • Many years ago, Cabell Greet, professor at Columbia University and widely recognized authority on phonetics, was consultant to CBS (as I recall) on pronunciations.


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