At one point, he compared the different pronunciations of Qatar.
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It comes with several different pronunciations of O'Rourke's first name.
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Siri also had laughably awkward pronunciations of some artist names.
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We talk about favorite foods, giggling over different accents and pronunciations.
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And there are so many pronunciations of Koch to choose from.
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"The Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations," Wilhite told The Times.
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That way, you don't have to worry about botching the pronunciations.
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It is worth pointing out that his own pronunciations were generally successful.
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In this case, Goldberg provided the proper pronunciations of her host peers.
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McMahon: I like it when you poke fun at news anchors' pronunciations.
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The process is filled with awkward gestures, incorrect pronunciations and occasional triumphs.
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They proclaim that both pronunciations are acceptable, betraying nary a hint of favouritism.
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The oceanic languages have entrancing traits, including megasyllabic words and very musical pronunciations.
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And a linguistic luminary talks about how he developed his expertise in pronunciations.
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The English pronunciations use a modified form of the system handed down from Latin.
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ANGER can have three very different pronunciations, depending on what the first letter is.
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We also avoided themers like SEA BASS where the two homographs have different pronunciations.
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Today's advanced ML systems are able to train programs to understand different languages and pronunciations.
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They have five exercises that get progressively harder, including pronunciations of words, phrases and sentences.
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His English is professional, but it is at times grammatically rough and peppered with awkward pronunciations.
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It also helps you to avoid embarrassing moments caused by poor pronunciations (been there, done that).
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If you would like to see the theme entries and their literal pronunciations, please click here.
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Being from Texas, I can assure you: These are spot-on pronunciations when spoken with a drawl.
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The pronunciations heard during Wednesday's testimony before the House Intelligence Committee left some spectators scratching their heads.
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" The inventor of the format, Steve Wilhite, proclaimed in 2013 that, "The Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations.
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There are a vast number of alternative pronunciations, based on familiarity and often on regional and generational differences.
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Smith is a talented breath of comedy, seeking laughs with everything from his gestures to his snobbish pronunciations.
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Known for his ridiculous pronunciations of English words, Stéaviñ did not disappoint when it came to the Lenny Face.
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In short order, Jif made a GIF of its own in support of Wilhite's announcement and their shared pronunciations.
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Drawing on its enormous database of given name pronunciations, the company has a 98 percent success rate, he said.
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Dude, you grow up with a funny last name and you really get used to all sorts of pronunciations.
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Caftan-clad Perry is a noted foodie, though she's not immune to the charm of Ramsay's accent and exotic pronunciations.
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His off-season focus is honing trickier pronunciations — understandable given that another new Laker is the Ukrainian rookie Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk.
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Others masked regional pronunciations, like Mr. Gladwell's saying résumé as "res-ew-me" — a holdover from his rural Ontario roots.
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"Pronunciations" is the name of the survey and it's accessible through Viewpoints, a separate Facebook app focused on market research.
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The company says Alexa will deliver a customized Indian experience, which includes a new English voice with local pronunciations and intonation.
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From "accio" to "wingardium leviosa" — both pronunciations, since we're neither snobs nor ingrates — spells both obscure and obvious made the cut.
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I tend to think it's just a measure of how socially connected you are, although I'm ostensibly asking about dictionary pronunciations.
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For children, the language acquisition process is just more natural — they are better at picking up intonations and pronunciations, he said.
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Facebook will let you make voice recordings as part of a new program called "Pronunciations" in its Viewpoints market research app.
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The Pronunciations program will be available to US users over the age of 18 that have more than 75 Facebook friends.
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I remember being called on to read the poems of Langston Hughes because I mastered the pronunciations of his colloquial euphemisms.
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Different words, different pronunciations, and different spellings have created two distinct separations in the English language: British English and American English.
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Below is a guide to all of the proper pronunciations of designer names, from the trickiest tongue twisters to surprisingly simple monikers.
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The "nut whose name has multiple pronunciations" is, of course, the PECAN, and apparently by "multiple," Mr. Ockman means at least four.
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Although Rose was not broadcasting Mets games yet, he heard about Pérez's change and it forever changed his pronunciations of other Perezes.
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At the conference last week, some audio of both the male and female voices were played to showcase its more nuanced pronunciations.
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A note on language: With simple pronunciations, a workable Bahasa Indonesia is easy to pick up from a guidebook available at the airport.
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Grant luxuriates in the blind privilege of Thorpe, with his ridiculously high-falutin' pronunciations and demands, while also being in on the joke.
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Tinkler did not reveal the singers name, but noted that they hired opera singers to record 200,000 words because they had strong pronunciations.
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August 2010: The New Oxford American Dictionary updates its Third Edition to include both the hard g and soft g pronunciations of GIF.
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With Hebrew, the nikud diacritical marks used to represent vowels or alternate pronunciations may also cause some programs to incorrectly recognize certain characters.
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The phrases and terms that work with both pronunciations (and meanings) to form the actual entry are all quite well known as well.
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The company's speech recognition software becomes trained on the speaker's voice so it gets better at understanding their unique speech irregularities and pronunciations.
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To help set up aspiring spellers for success, here's a list of the most challenging words to spell, complete with phonetic pronunciations and definitions.
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" Camerota then listed many "alternate pronunciations" of the word for the 12-year-old spelling champion, whose attempt at spelling the word was "cofefe.
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Customers train the software to understand their unique pronunciations, which it then translates into normalized speech output in the form of audio or text.
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As he explained in emails to Wallisch, the IPA has just 46 "phonemes" — distinct units of sound — that show up in standard American English pronunciations.
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There are certain cadences, emphases, and pronunciations that most of us couldn't identify — but when flubbed, they're dead giveaways that somebody's Yankee yammer is faux.
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Here, Kool Herc's voice here has no trace of an accent, in contrast to his mother's pronunciations of teen as teeen and child as chiile.
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" (Minute 00:10.) Now, that is much more in line with such customary local pronunciations as "Kos-kee-OOS-ko" and "Kos-kee-OSS-ko.
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It tasted like a less rich and sweet version of hot chocolate — that also happened to cost me $51.86 and a handful of painful ingredient pronunciations.
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She says the recording for this was very difficult; it was very hard to really get all of the pronunciations spot on so it wasn't easy.
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Grutle wrote lyrics in Norwegian and they worked together to put it into Icelandic, with a bit of help on the pronunciations and quirks of the language.
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Several members of the team spent more than a year creating a giant database of correct pronunciations to cut the errors to as close to zero as possible.
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"What I'm not going to do any more are these unequivocal pronunciations," he said, avoiding a question about whether he planned to run for president again in 2020.
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From the likes of Coutinho, to Pouraliganji, or Hasebe, you've likely heard commentators try to nail these pronunciations, because getting names right is an important sign of respect.
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Because of how much data it takes in, the system sounds more human as it learns the correct pronunciations, inflections and accents from a wider variety of source voices.
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The bee pronouncer, Jacques Bailly, a former champion, offered alternative pronunciations of "koinonia," one with the "oi" of classical Greek and one with the "ee" of the modern language.
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While all these varied pronunciations add flavor to the language, they also have their pitfalls: Whenever British people speak, their fellow citizens immediately hear the unmistakable twang of class.
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It meant recording many phrases, each spoken many times, with different emotional emphases and in different contexts (statement, question, command and so forth), in order to cover all possible pronunciations.
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She kept up her adopted Jordanian accent even in taxis, fed up with male drivers who, upon hearing her Syrian pronunciations, assumed her to be vulnerable and potentially sexually available.
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Shieling, gneiss, pash, choss, sheep-fank: While reading Robert Macfarlane's essays in "Landmarks" you'll want to pause to say the words — collected in glossaries throughout — aloud, savoring their pronunciations and meanings.
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Or to honor Harry Potter, have children dream up a list of their five best wizard spells, complete with intricate descriptions and twisty pronunciations and etymologies to share with their classmates.
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David Pennock, class of '60, one of four generations of his family to have gone to Amherst, is so invested in the college that he bridles at incorrect pronunciations of the name.
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A team of scientists led by Jose Abramson of the Complutense University of Madrid recorded Wikie's attempted pronunciations of human speech, and were delighted by how well she was able to emulate certain words.
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With the lexicographical authorities resigned to a "descriptivist" approach, following words and pronunciations wherever the unwashed masses go, those determined to resolve the question once and for all are taking matters into their own hands.
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That wasn't enough to help Vinay — who then asked for language of origin ("gibberish"), part of speech ("a noun,but may be used as a verb or an insult"), and alternative pronunciations ("there are many").
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"We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga" by Traci Sorell available at Amazon for $13.69 and Barnes & Noble for $16.42This is a very loaded book that features Cherokee vocabulary words, including their phonetic pronunciations, symbols, and English translations.
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It was hard enough to get my mind around the altered pronunciations of the phrases, but I would have been lost if the phrases had not been as tight as the set he eventually used.
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With Bixler-Zavala incorporating Spanish phrases and pronunciations, and Rodriguez-Lopez bringing his love of salsa music into the band, they bucked back against the scene's homogeneity and carved out their own space inside it.
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Having the app recognize and speak in these regional pronunciations could prove to be incredibly helpful for travelers trying to be understood as not all languages are spoken the same in various parts of the world.
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If your Contacts list contains names with unusual spellings and pronunciations that Siri cannot accurately match up when you ask for them, you can try adding a phonetic version of the name to the person's contact card.
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It mainly stumbles on words with pronunciations that aren't particularly intuitive, perhaps due to their origin outside American English, such as "decorum," where it emphasizes the first syllable, and "Merlot," which it hilariously pronounces just as it looks.
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I realize that both parties believe they are pronouncing the word the correct way; it's just that sometimes I get this awkward feeling when we go back and forth multiple times using the same word, as if it's "dueling pronunciations"!
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If you're from Texas, as Mr. Newton is, these phrases are supposedly accurate regional pronunciations of the phrases ROCKY HORROR, CLERICAL ERROR, REAR VIEW MIRROR and SHEER TERROR, minus the THREE R'S and re-imagined as a totally new phrase.
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Years later, the phonetic pronunciations displayed on President George W. Bush's teleprompter for locations like Kyrgyzstan "(KEYR-geez-stan)" was accidentally published on the United Nations website after an address, playing into criticisms that Bush was naive about foreign affairs.
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From the books we read — Enid Blyton and the Biggles adventure series as children; Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene and W. Somerset Maugham as adults — to the way we organized our schools and examinations, our spellings and pronunciations, Britain exerted tremendous influence.
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The "women yelling at a cat" meme is as versatile as it is iconic — it has been used for everything from arguing about pronunciations and interpretations to describing ultra-emotional drunken moments to referencing headlines and combining with other memes.
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While I hadn't adopted a British accent during my time in England, I had adopted words, phrases, and pronunciations that raised eyebrows and cocked heads in the U.S. Often I found myself hesitating before speaking, trying to remember how I pronounced certain words.
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Those clipped tones and eccentric pronunciations eventually became part of the drag vocabulary — and they certainly are part of the joy of "The Confession of Lily Dare," Charles Busch's delicious mash-up of pre-Code weepies that opened on Wednesday at the Cherry Lane Theater.
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He learned how to say "thank you" and "excuse me" in every language his hosts spoke, attempting to get the pronunciations right in ways that were so eager and earnest that it was almost embarrassing if you believed his punk veneer was all there was to him.
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Pitted not so much against one another but against only words, they feel their way toward certainty or a best guess by asking for clues – part of speech, definition, language of origin, alternate pronunciations – and by requesting that the pronouncer to use their word in a sentence.
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Breaking Down the Familiar Faces and New Reveals of the Powerful Star Trek: Picard TrailerOn Saturday, Sir Patrick Stewart brought down the house at San Diego Comic-Con by revealing our…Read more ReadStop for a moment and think about the two pronunciations of the word.
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The Speak & Spell's computerized voice was its most impressive feature, and it was so fascinating to me as a kid that I can still clearly hear its raspy, slightly incomprehensible pronunciations in my head; when I'd be hard-pressed to remember the voices of any of my childhood friends.
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"Aside his pronunciations about climate change denial and anti-vaccination, the President Elect has made it clear there will substantive cuts to income tax as well as spending," Jim Woodgett, investigator and director of research at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital, told me in an email.
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Nanjiani, a co-star on HBO's "Silicon Valley" and co-writer of "The Big Sick," and Ross, who plays Bow on ABC's "black-ish," announced the nominations early Tuesday morning with humor, grace and, given that they gave everybody's name and movie (and nailed the pronunciations, by the way), forbearance.
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Pandering at it's finest, but taken up a notch by painting their target demographic as a tired and false stereotype of a people lacking refinement/culture to understand how to eat foreign foods and an over-the-top embellishment of cliché ambient music, comical pronunciations of foreign names/words, and Chinese subtitles (English added by us), which begs the question—who is this video actually for?
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And yet, it remains within reach; a time capsule to a time when I first began a ritual of late nights in July tuned in to SBS, listening carefully to Phil Liggett's insightful commentary and trying to repeat Paul Sherwin's pronunciations of French villages, watching out for Robbie McEwan's sudden appearance from under his 'invisibility cloak' to snatch stage victories and learning to love the agonisingly close finishes (8th, 13th, 2nd, 2nd again) of soft spoken Cadel Evans.
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Of course, Primavera Sound will continue to thrive with or without our useless pronunciations of 'dos burgers, por favor,' but it's a sad time for the many Brits who have enjoyed this and other European festivals so much over the years: here, 2018 certainly felt like a line in the sand, with a strong UK presence potentially making up for the lack of one next year, as 2019 will also see the return of Glastonbury, after 2018's fallow year.
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