In this dictionary slashes (/../) bracket phonetic pron
UNCiations of words not found in a standard English dictionary. The notation, and many of the pron
UNCiations, 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 prono
UNCed 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 prono
UNCed as their English letter names thus (for example) /H-L-L/ is equivalent to /aych el el/. /Z/ is prono
UNCed /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 anno
UNCers 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 Pron
UNCiation. Entries with a pron
UNCiation of `//' are written-only. (1997-12-10)
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