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List of irregularly spelled English names. This is a set of lists of English personal and place names having spellings that are counterintuitive to their pronunciation because the spelling does not accord with conventional pronunciation associations. Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages.
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Trying to pronounce both pairs of L's in the name of this northern Rhode Island town is a classic rookie mistakes. Locals drop the first and call it "BUH-reh-vil," which sometimes comes out more ...
Pronunciation. Grimes and Musk seem to have different ideas of how to pronounce the name. “It’s just X, like the letter X. Then AI. Like how you said the letter A then I,” Grimes said.
English phonology is the system of speech sounds used in spoken English. Like many other languages, English has wide variation in pronunciation, both historically and from dialect to dialect. In general, however, the regional dialects of English share a largely similar (but not identical) phonological system.
Most everyone knows the C is silent and you pronounce this like the way the name Mackinaw City looks: "Mack-in-awe." 2. Sault Ste. Marie. The first word of this notable Upper Peninsula town trips ...
Cockburn ( / ˈkoʊbərn / KOH-bərn, Scots: [ˈkobʌɾn]) is a Scottish surname that originated in the Borders region of the Scottish Lowlands. In the United States most branches of the same family have adopted the simplified spelling ' Coburn '; other branches have altered the name slightly to ' Cogburn '. The French branch of the family uses ...