In thi
s dictionary
sla
she
s (/../) bracket phonetic pronunciation
s of word
s not found in a
standard Engli
sh dictionary. The notation, and many of the pronunciation
s, were adapted from the Hacker'
s Jargon File.
syllable
s are
separated by
dash or followed
single quote or
back quote.
single quote mean
s the preceding
syllable i
s stre
ssed (louder), back quote follow
s a
syllable with intermediate
stre
ss (
slightly louder), otherwi
se all
syllable
s are equally
stre
ssed. Con
sonant
s are pronounced a
s in Engli
sh but note: ch
soft, a
s in "church" g hard, a
s in "got" gh a
spirated g+h of "bughou
se" or "ragheap" j voiced, a
s in "judge" kh guttural of "loch" or "l' chaim"
s unvoiced, a
s in "pa
ss" zh a
s "
s" in "plea
sure" Upperca
se letter
s are pronounced a
s their Engli
sh letter name
s thu
s (for example) /H-L-L/ i
s equivalent to /aych el el/. /Z/ i
s pronounced /zee/ in the U
s and /zed/ in the UK (el
sewhere?). Vowel
s are repre
sented a
s follow
s: a back, that ah father, palm (
see note) ar far, mark aw flaw, caught ay bake, rain e le
ss, men ee ea
sy,
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, in
sert (only in
stre
ssed
syllable
s otherwi
se u
se ju
st "r") y yet, young yoo few, chew [y]oo /oo/ with optional fronting a
s in `new
s' (/nooz/ or /nyooz/) A /*/ i
s u
sed for the `
schwa'
sound of un
stre
ssed or occluded vowel
s (often written with an up
side-down `e' ). The
schwa vowel i
s omitted in un
stre
ssed
syllable
s containing vocalic l, m, n or r that i
s, "kitten" and "colour" would be rendered /kit' n/ and /kuhl' r/, not /kit' *n/ and /kuhl' *r/. The above table reflect
s mainly di
stinction
s found in
standard American Engli
sh (that i
s, the neutral dialect
spoken by TV network announcer
s and typical of educated
speech in the Upper Midwe
st, Chicago, Minneapoli
s/
st.Paul and Philadelphia). However, we
separate /o/ from /ah/, which tend to merge in
standard American. Thi
s may help reader
s accu
stomed to accent
s re
sembling Briti
sh Received Pronunciation. Entrie
s with a pronunciation of `//' are written-only. (1997-12-10)
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