Thanks for the great practical mnemonic, though the claim that "of", "must", and "learn" contain three different vowels deserves discussion; the first two may simply be the unstressed versus the stressed …

Aug 2, 2015 · I am looking for a tool to read a word written as phonetic transcription (IPA or APA). I need it to provide users with a tool to verify if they've chosen the correct IPA transcription (users will n...

Nov 29, 2018 · The word phonetic is of Greek origin (φωνή {phōni} = voice). Greek writing probably first emerged in the 8th century BCE. What its predecessors appear to have lacked, namely the …

Phonemics, or Phonology, is the study of the distribution of sound systems in human languages. A Phoneme is a particular set of sounds produced in a particular language and distinguishable by …

Mar 28, 2022 · Generally speaking, you're better off using the phonetic transcriptions in the English-to-<Language> section of any good bilingual dictionary. They're fast and simple and don't care at all …

Jul 2, 2014 · It's highly likely that in my mind's ear, I heard it with the "correct" pronunciation, despite the absence of any phonetic indicators. That suggests that context matters, and that simply writing …

Sep 24, 2011 · But I don't know what phonetic notation it is using. For example, the "y" in prefix "hypo" is pronounced differently with following phonetic notation in Google:

The word year when pronounced starts with a phonetic sound of e which is a vowel sound making it eligible for being preceded by an. Yet, we tend to write a year. Why?

Feb 24, 2013 · It's a because the first sound of user is not a vowel, but the consonant /j/. ‘Vowel’ and ‘consonant’ describe letters that represent vowel and consonant sounds, but they also describe the …

Apr 19, 2012 · The Unicode standard has names for phonetic symbols. Start with the Wikipedia article on phonetic symbols in Unicode. Since the Unicode standard is an accepted international standard …