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spelling pronunciation

noun

Etymology

From spelling + pronunciation.

  1. derived from prōnūntiātiō
  2. derived from prononciation
  3. inherited from pronunciacioun
  4. compounded as spelling pronunciation — “spelling + pronunciation”

Definitions

  1. A pronunciation that has been modified from its traditional form in order to reflect (one…

    A pronunciation that has been modified from its traditional form in order to reflect (one or another interpretation of) the spelling of the word in question.

    • The audio contained some spelling pronunciations, such as when "sieve" was mistakenly portrayed as rhyming with "leave".

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for spelling pronunciation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA