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. Sylla
Bles are separated
By
dash or followed
single quote or
Back quote. Single quote means the preceding sylla
Ble is stressed (louder),
Back quote follows a sylla
Ble with intermediate stress (slightly louder), otherwise all sylla
Bles 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 sylla
Bles 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 sylla
Bles 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 a
Bove ta
Ble 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 resem
Bling
British Received Pronunciation. Entries with a pronunciation of `//' are written-only. (1997-12-10)
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