Example sentences for: pronunciations

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

  • 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.

  • The pronunciations given in Chambers are not those of the Received Pronunciation—the BBC or Oxonian accent—as they are in all the other British dictionaries I have consulted.

  • Those who are not intimately familiar, from listening to them on radio and television, with how specific British politicians and entertainers of the decades since WWII sound may find themselves at sea in the rather detailed descriptions (chapters six and seven) of their pronunciations and their effects, good and bad, on the British public.

  • Pronunciations are given as necessary, using an adaptation of the International Phonetic Alphabet developed by the Barnharts for this series.

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


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