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English Pronouncing Dictionary. The English Pronouncing Dictionary ( EPD) was created by the British phonetician Daniel Jones and was first published in 1917. [ 1] It originally comprised over 50,000 headwords listed in their spelling form, each of which was given one or more pronunciations transcribed using a set of phonemic symbols based on a ...
Comparison of English dictionaries. This is a comparison of English dictionaries, which are dictionaries about the language of English. The dictionaries listed here are categorized into "full-size" dictionaries (which extensively cover the language, and are targeted to native speakers), "collegiate" (which are smaller, and often contain other ...
The Turabay dynasty was a family of Bedouin emirs who governed the district of Lajjun in northern Palestine during Ottoman rule in the 16th–17th centuries. The family's forebears had served as chiefs of Jezreel Valley during Mamluk rule in the late 15th century. During the Ottoman conquest of the region in 1516–1517, the family aided ...
Y-cluster reductions. [edit] See also: § Yod-rhotacization. Y-cluster reductions are reductions of clusters ending with the palatal approximant /j/, which is the sound of y in yes, and is sometimes referred to as "yod", from the Hebrew letter yod (h), which has the sound [j]. Many such clusters arose in dialects in which the falling diphthong ...
Life. Gimson was educated at Emanuel School London, and University College London, where later in 1966 he became Professor of Phonetics, and in 1971 head of the Department of Phonetics and Linguistics. He was a pupil and colleague of Daniel Jones, and is known for having updated and extended Jones's description of standard British English ...
Jamie Lee Curtis has always been legendary, but now it’s official: she was named a Disney Legend on Sunday during the D23 Expo. Lindsay Lohan took the stage to queue up a montage of Curtis ...
Dazzle (video recorder), a family of external video capture devices. Dazzle camouflage, a family of ship camouflage. Dazzle Draw, a raster graphics editor for the Apple IIc and Apple IIe. Dazzle reflex, a type of reflex blink where the eyelids involuntarily blink in response to a sudden bright light. Dazzle, an intense and vision-impairing glare.
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.