Example sentences for: pronunciations

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

  • I suspect that the new policy, rather than being a reflection of changes in the speech of literate Britons, is a nod—or perhaps a resigned shrug—in the direction of overseas English speakers, since the new pronunciations conform with those of at least some overseas speakers, among them, Americans.

  • General American pronunciations are easy to find because they are separated from RP by double vertical bars.

  • 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.

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

  • Instead, it tries to document the varieties of English that are not found throughout the country—those words, pronunciations, and phrases that vary from one region to another, that are learned at home rather than at school, or that are part of our oral rather than our written culture.


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