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This tag is for questions which a dictionary cannot answer about the sound, intonation, and stress of how words are uttered or produced.

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I'm confused about the pronunciation of words like "carry", "marry", and "parry". When checking Vocabulary.com, I see these pronunciations: parry: US /ˈpɛri/ UK /ˈpɛri/ ...
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There currently is a discussion ongoing on how to teach children that the value of 3.15 is smaller than 3.4. Speaking about "three point one five" instead of "three point fifteen" ...
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Some dictionaries (Cambridge, Longman, OALD) give different pronunciation for a weak and strong form of the words such "she" and "be". Example: https://www....
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sentient What's the right one between senʃnt and sentiənt? ex. Man is a sentient being.
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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Holmes says under "Pronunciation" that (General American) IPA(key): /hoʊmz/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /həʊmz/ (spelling pronunciation) IPA(key): /...
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I hear it pronounced as gow-uhng most of the time, and there's a distinct w that can shorten if you're talking fast, but it's still there. However, some people always (audio example) pronounce it with ...
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In BrE marchioness is pronounced /ˌmɑː.ʃənˈes/. Are there other instances where 'chi' is pronounced /ʃ/ and not /tʃ/?
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For those who don't know what the cot-caught merger is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cot%E2%80%93caught_merger
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I've learned that the the /d/ sound in I'd like could never be completely omitted in spoken English, but when there's a "just" before "like", I find it really hard to tell them ...
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I wonder whether it's standard to pronounce schwa in endings like /ən/, /əm/, /əl/ or /ər/. Dictionaries disagree on this Compare pronounciations of 'nation': Cambridge Oxford Learner's Dictionaries ...
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So I was asking this question on ChatGPT How to pronounce Bézout's Identity? Since Bézout is a French name, I expected it sounded like "BAY-zoos" (the silent t in French), but the AI told ...
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In Cambridge Dictionary, If you click US /bæd/ (the word "bad"), you hear exactly /æ/ which is the combination of /a/ and /e/. If you pronounce /æ/ as /e/ for the word "bad", it ...
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Cambridge says strength noun UK /streŋθ/ US /streŋθ/ Merriam Webster says: strength noun ˈstreŋ(k)th ˈstren(t)th In which accents is strength pronounced as ˈstreŋkth or ˈstrentth ?
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Schwa is said to be a reduced vowel or an unstressed syllable and to me that looks like a concrete definition for a vowel. However, To my ears, it's an inconsistent sound. I hear schwa differently in ...
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For example, the pronunciation of the word 'schedule' varies from dictionary to dictionary: https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/schedule https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/...
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