In t
his dictionary slas
hes (/../) bracket p
honetic pronunciations of words not found in a standard Englis
h dictionary. T
he notation, and many of t
he pronunciations, were adapted from t
he
hacker' s
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Jargon File">Jargon File. Syllables are separated by
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=dash">dash or followed
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=single quote">single quote or
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=back quote">back quote. Single quote means t
he preceding syllable is stressed (louder), back quote follows a syllable wit
h intermediate stress (slig
htly louder), ot
herwise all syllables are equally stressed. Consonants are pronounced as in Englis
h but note: c
h soft, as in "c
hurc
h" g
hard, as in "got" g
h aspirated g+
h of "bug
house" or "rag
heap" j voiced, as in "judge" k
h guttural of "loc
h" or "l' c
haim" s unvoiced, as in "pass" z
h as "s" in "pleasure" Uppercase letters are pronounced as t
heir Englis
h letter names t
hus (for example) /
h-L-L/ is equivalent to /ayc
h el el/. /Z/ is pronounced /zee/ in t
he US and /zed/ in t
he UK (elsew
here?). Vowels are represented as follows: a back, t
hat a
h fat
her, palm (see note) ar far, mark aw flaw, caug
ht ay bake, rain e less, men ee easy, ski eir t
heir, software i trip,
hit i: life, sky o block, stock (see note) o
h flow, sew oo loot, t
hroug
h or more, door ow out,
how oy boy, coin u
h but, some u put, foot *r fur, insert (only in stressed syllables ot
herwise use just "r") y yet, young yoo few, c
hew [y]oo /oo/ wit
h optional fronting as in `news' (/nooz/ or /nyooz/) A /*/ is used for t
he `sc
hwa' sound of unstressed or occluded vowels (often written wit
h an upside-down `e' ). T
he sc
hwa vowel is omitted in unstressed syllables containing vocalic l, m, n or r t
hat is, "kitten" and "colour" would be rendered /kit' n/ and /ku
hl' r/, not /kit' *n/ and /ku
hl' *r/. T
he above table reflects mainly distinctions found in standard American Englis
h (t
hat is, t
he neutral dialect spoken by TV network announcers and typical of educated speec
h in t
he Upper Midwest, C
hicago, Minneapolis/St.Paul and P
hiladelp
hia).
however, we separate /o/ from /a
h/, w
hic
h tend to merge in standard American. T
his may
help readers accustomed to accents resembling Britis
h Received Pronunciation. Entries wit
h a pronunciation of `//' are written-only. (1997-12-10)
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