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Example sentences for: tch
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Yet macho is uttered with a - tch -, possibly to distinguish it from one of the pronunciations of the word for a variety of shark.
The OED2e is not tuned in to this pronunciation of machismo , showing only the - tch - pronunciation; the Longman and the newer Oxford Concise show both, but with - tch - first; only the Collins , of those British dictionaries I checked, shows the - k - pronunciation as prevalent.
Two proteins induced by touch, rain, wind, wounding, and darkness, TCH2 and TCH3, are also in group IV and are related to the CAMs.
One professional British lexicographer told me, categorically, that no one uses the - tch - pronunciation in Britain, where it would be regarded as wrong or pedantic.
For instance, the British use the word machismo (but pronounce it, almost invariably, as if it were a loanword from Italian, with a - k -where the Spanish has a - tch -).