I took the (immense) trouble to teach the well-meaning but naive programs improved pronunciations of over 4.
In some few other cases there are obviously erroneous or awkward pronunciations of words, especially of French proper and place names.
What seems clear about it is that the two contending pronunciationsare homophones, one with latches the other with lashes.
Hence the common pronunciations Newfoundland, Hawthornden; the alternation of stress in poor old man, sad hurt heart; and the shift of accent in "In a Chinese restaurant the waiters are Chinese.
Some of his pronunciations were rather antiquated; but they were the elegant New England pronunciations of his youthful days.
The object of this paper is to show by setting forth the principles consciously or unconsciously followed by our ancestors that such pronunciations are as erroneous as in the case of the ordinary man they are unnatural and pedantic.
In some old families the tradition still compels such pronunciations as moosic.
Her pronunciationswere heard everywhere in the most ruthless parody.
The pronunciations of the three grew mutually distasteful, and dreadful triangular rows took place on matters of speech.
What two pronunciations may bow have, and what is the difference in meaning?
I am bound to warn the reader that the pronunciations stated are only approximate.
Yet most of the pronunciations stated are sufficiently near the truth to answer ordinary purposes.
In addition to my bodily sufferings, my ear was tortured by the various pronunciations given to the city's name.
An interesting discussion of this peculiarity is in Some Variant Pronunciations in the New South, by William A.
And where spellings have remained unchanged, pronunciations have been frequently modified.
I made note of the pronunciations overheard, with the word constantly on all lips.
This accounts for what some of us look on as the offensive vulgarity of the modern pronunciations of waistcoat, often, forehead, landscape, handkerchief, due to a wish to speak correctly.
The pronunciations ridiculed by Dickens would be the only pronunciations allowable.
Were the principle here indicated fully carried out, pronunciations now condemned as vulgarisms would displace those now considered correct.
Doubtless he heard such pronunciations from some men.
The pronunciations vaez and vawz are alluded to but not recommended.
It is regarded as an inelegant word, diagonal and diagonally being preferred: though it is probable that this opinion has been caused by the abominable pronunciations catty and kitty cornered.
When two pronunciations are given, both may be considered as common; the first is generally to be preferred.
I am confident that particularly those who have had no phonetic training will regard as slipshod some of the pronunciations which I state to be usual.
In exile both pronunciations of x may be heard, [ks] being perhaps the more common.
His Eastern pronunciations fascinated them as they had fascinated Kedzie, and he soon found in them all the breeziness and wholesomeness of the great prairies which are found in the mid-Western women of literature.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pronunciations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
