Definition of Pronunciations. Meaning of Pronunciations. Synonyms of Pronunciations

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Definition of Pronunciations

Pronunciation
Pronunciation Pro*nun`ci*a"tion (?; 277), n. [F. pronunciation, L. pronunciatio. See Pronounce.] 1. The act of uttering with articulation; the act of giving the proper sound and accent; utterance; as, the pronunciation of syllables of words; distinct or indistinct pronunciation. 2. The mode of uttering words or sentences. 3. (Rhet.) The art of manner of uttering a discourse publicly with propriety and gracefulness; -- now called delivery. --J. Q. Adams.

Meaning of Pronunciations from wikipedia

- standard pronunciations, but regional or dialectal pronunciations may be found in more specific works. Orthoepy is the study of the pronunciation of a language...
- soft g pronunciations in other situations, similar to Dow's analysis. After Steve Wilhite announced his opinion that the soft g pronunciation was the...
- IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. There are a variety of pronunciations in Modern English and in historical forms of the language for words...
- RP pronunciations for all words. Pronunciation dictionaries represent a special class of dictionary giving a wide range of possible pronunciations: British...
- A pronunciation respelling is a regular phonetic respelling of a word that has a standard spelling but whose pronunciation according to that spelling may...
- German pronunciations. These are most obvious in the treatment of cholam: the northern German pronunciation is [au], the southern German pronunciation is...
- spoken language. Pronunciations can then arise that are similar to older pronunciations or that can even be completely new pronunciations that are suggested...
- without regard to etymology, which occasionally leads to spelling pronunciations at variance with the rules laid down in Biblical Hebrew grammar books...
- accurate specification of pronunciation information for international use. The language allows one or more pronunciations for a word or phrase to be...
- places. This article covers those pronunciations; the modern scholarly reconstruction of its ancient pronunciation is covered in Ancient Gr**** phonology...