| slovo | definícia |
pronunciation
(mass) | pronunciation
- výslovnosť |
pronunciation
(encz) | pronunciation,výslovnost n: |
Pronunciation
(gcide) | Pronunciation \Pro*nun`ci*a"tion\ (?; 277), n. [F.
pronunciation, L. pronunciatio. See Pronounce.]
[1913 Webster]
1. The act of uttering with articulation; the act of giving
the proper sound and accent; utterance; as, the
pronunciation of syllables of words; distinct or
indistinct pronunciation.
[1913 Webster]
2. The mode of uttering words or sentences.
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3. (Rhet.) The art of manner of uttering a discourse publicly
with propriety and gracefulness; -- now called delivery.
--J. Q. Adams.
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pronunciation
(wn) | pronunciation
n 1: the manner in which someone utters a word; "they are always
correcting my pronunciation"
2: the way a word or a language is customarily spoken; "the
pronunciation of Chinese is difficult for foreigners"; "that
is the correct pronunciation" [syn: pronunciation,
orthoepy] |
pronunciation
(foldoc) | Pronunciation
In this dictionary slashes (/../) bracket phonetic
pronunciations of words not found in a standard English
dictionary. The notation, and many of the pronunciations,
were adapted from the Hacker's Jargon File.
Syllables are separated by dash or followed single quote
or back quote. Single quote means the preceding syllable is
stressed (louder), back quote follows a syllable with
intermediate stress (slightly louder), otherwise all syllables
are equally stressed.
Consonants are pronounced as in English but note:
ch soft, as in "church"
g hard, as in "got"
gh aspirated g+h of "bughouse" or "ragheap"
j voiced, as in "judge"
kh guttural of "loch" or "l'chaim"
s unvoiced, as in "pass"
zh as "s" in "pleasure"
Uppercase letters are pronounced as their English letter
names; thus (for example) /H-L-L/ is equivalent to /aych el
el/. /Z/ is pronounced /zee/ in the US and /zed/ in the UK
(elsewhere?).
Vowels are represented as follows:
a back, that
ah father, palm (see note)
ar far, mark
aw flaw, caught
ay bake, rain
e less, men
ee easy, ski
eir their, software
i trip, hit
i: life, sky
o block, stock (see note)
oh flow, sew
oo loot, through
or more, door
ow out, how
oy boy, coin
uh but, some
u put, foot
*r fur, insert (only in stressed
syllables; otherwise use just "r")
y yet, young
yoo few, chew
[y]oo /oo/ with optional fronting as
in `news' (/nooz/ or /nyooz/)
A /*/ is used for the `schwa' sound of unstressed or occluded
vowels (often written with an upside-down `e'). The schwa
vowel is omitted in unstressed syllables containing vocalic l,
m, n or r; that is, "kitten" and "colour" would be rendered
/kit'n/ and /kuhl'r/, not /kit'*n/ and /kuhl'*r/.
The above table reflects mainly distinctions found in standard
American English (that is, the neutral dialect spoken by TV
network announcers and typical of educated speech in the Upper
Midwest, Chicago, Minneapolis/St.Paul and Philadelphia).
However, we separate /o/ from /ah/, which tend to merge in
standard American. This may help readers accustomed to
accents resembling British Received Pronunciation.
Entries with a pronunciation of `//' are written-only.
(1997-12-10)
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mispronunciation
(encz) | mispronunciation,špatná výslovnost n: Ritchiemispronunciation,špatné vyslovení n: Zdeněk Brož |
Continental pronunciation
(gcide) | Continental pronunciation \Continental pronunciation\ (of Latin
and Greek.)
A method of pronouncing Latin and Greek in which the vowels
have their more familiar Continental values, as in German and
Italian, the consonants being pronounced mostly as in
English. The stricter form of this method of pronouncing
Latin approaches the Roman, the modified form the English,
pronunciation. The Continental method of Greek pronunciation
is often called Erasmian.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
Mispronunciation
(gcide) | Mispronunciation \Mis`pro*nun`ci*a"tion\ (? or ?), n.
Wrong or improper pronunciation.
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Pronunciation
(gcide) | Pronunciation \Pro*nun`ci*a"tion\ (?; 277), n. [F.
pronunciation, L. pronunciatio. See Pronounce.]
[1913 Webster]
1. The act of uttering with articulation; the act of giving
the proper sound and accent; utterance; as, the
pronunciation of syllables of words; distinct or
indistinct pronunciation.
[1913 Webster]
2. The mode of uttering words or sentences.
[1913 Webster]
3. (Rhet.) The art of manner of uttering a discourse publicly
with propriety and gracefulness; -- now called delivery.
--J. Q. Adams.
[1913 Webster] |
mispronunciation
(wn) | mispronunciation
n 1: incorrect pronunciation |
received pronunciation
(wn) | Received Pronunciation
n 1: the approved pronunciation of British English; originally
based on the King's English as spoken at public schools and
at Oxford and Cambridge Universities (and widely accepted
elsewhere in Britain); until recently it was the
pronunciation of English used in British broadcasting |
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