In this dictionary slashes (/../) bracket phonetic pronunci
ATions of words not found in a standard English dictionary. The not
ATion, and many of the pronunci
ATions, were adapted from the Hacker' s
Jargon File. Syllables are separ
ATed by
dash or followed
single quote or
back quote. Single quote means the preceding syllable is stressed (louder), back quote follows a syllable with intermedi
ATe 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 aspir
ATed 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, th
AT ah f
ATher, 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 th
AT 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 (th
AT is, the neutral dialect spoken by TV network announcers and typical of educ
ATed speech in the Upper Midwest, Chicago, Minneapolis/St.Paul and Philadelphia). However, we separ
ATe /o/ from /ah/, which tend to merge in standard American. This may help readers accustomed to accents resembling British Received Pronunci
ATion. Entries with a pronunci
ATion of `//' are written-only. (1997-12-10)
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