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pronunciationThe way in which words are rendered into human speech sounds; either a language as a whole (‘French pronunciation’) or a particular word or name (‘what is the pronunciation of ‘controversy’?’). The pronunciation of languages forms the academic subject of phonetics. |
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| Father only left Paris after he had seen us what he calls comfortably settled here, and had informed Madame de Maisonrouge (the mistress of the establishment--the head of the "family") that he wished my French pronunciation especially attended to. * Strictly speaking, the pronunciation of all words such as Liang, Kiang, etc. Eliot, at the close of his Indian Grammar, mentions him as "a pregnant-witted young man, who had been a servant in an English house, who pretty well understood his own language, and had a clear pronunciation. |
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