I can never figure out the pronounciation guides in dictionaries. Say I need to figure out how to pronounce a word. I'm better off just guessing, because those guides don't help me at all. You know what I'm talking about. You know those guides, with the little dots and lines over letters. That stuff I can never figure out.
Dictionary.com spells out the words phonetically so you know how to say it. For instance:
amatory \AM-uh-tor-ee; -tohr-\, adjective:
of love; expressing love, especially sexual
Exactly. Now you know how to say it.
Pot, not marijuana, but coffee.
No parking, but I break the law.
Sporting the jersey. On the Phone. In the wind.
At work. Deep in thought.
Desperado, bitches!
Double bogie : (
Road signs are often confounding!
Just like Cortez
They were THIS BIG!
Across the table
My desk, where good things happen
Golfing it up.
4 comments:
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I didn't know you were writing on this thing again. Feck!
I must catch up and read.
I agree...i'm glad us English majors have this stuff figured out...
agreed.
Have what stuff figured out? How to use phonetics? Did you guys study IPA? I want to learn that, and funnily enough, yesterday I was actually singled out by a group of volunteers for having the "best" accent since I speak such a neutral English.
Also, Charles, you can't rely on those pronunciations at dictionary.com because "UH" might sound different to someone else.
But I know exactly what you mean. I usually skip the guides if I can.
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