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Showing posts with label pronunciations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pronunciations. Show all posts
Thursday, January 26, 2012

Alliterative Rooster

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My teenage boys have a new favorite condiment - Sriracha Chili Sauce. I was unsure about the standard pronunciation, so I looked it up and c...
Friday, October 21, 2011

How Do You Pronounce That?

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A channel on You Tube called Pronunciation Book gives audio demonstrations of the pronunciation of various words. I don't know how they...
Thursday, May 21, 2009

Mackinaw vs. Mackinac - Spelling and Pronunciation

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A reader recently inquired about the two different versions of spelling Mackinac/Mackinaw in Michigan place names. The following excerpt fro...
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

The Michigan Accent

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After much serious analysis of the Yooper dialect in the past, I thought it would be fun to take a humorous look at what michigannative.com...
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Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Eric Clapton in Japanese

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While checking out a blog called "Who? Wot! Me?, " I came across this picture with the caption "What do Japanese people reall...
Friday, April 18, 2008

Phonetics and George Bernard Shaw

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Because of the inconsistencies in English language spelling and word pronunciation, when George Bernard Shaw died in 1950 he left money in h...
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