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spelling pronunciation en · NOUN

Etymology

From spelling + pronunciation.

Meanings

1. 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".
   • Jespersen ([1909] 1954) says that spelling pronunciation has affected the pronunciation of all the following words: second (1:25); nephew (1:42); theater, apothecary, catholic, throne (1:45); humble, host, inherit, heretic, heresy, homely, hypocrite, hypocrisy, hospital, heritage, heritor, humor, hermit, hotel (1:61–62); novel (1:91), periwig (1:105); registrar (1:198); assoil, precise (1:204); wassail (1:268); fault, vault, assault, Walter, altar, fealty, moult, cauldron, baldric, herald, ribald, emerald, soldier, falcon, realm (1:295–97). 1988, D. W. Cummings, American English Spelling: An Informal Description, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 23:

Forms

Relateds

phonemic spelling · phonetic spelling · pronunciation spelling · pronunciation respelling

Translations (15)

nn skriftspråksuttale (spelling pronunciation) · es pronunciación ortográfica (spelling pronunciation) · sv skriftspråksuttal (spelling pronunciation) · pl wymowa zgodna z pisownią (spelling pronunciation) · nds-de Utspraak na de Schrievwies (spelling pronunciation) · de Schriftaussprache (spelling pronunciation) · nds-de Utsprook no de Schrievwies (spelling pronunciation) · pt pronúncia ortográfica (spelling pronunciation) · de Buchstabenaussprache (spelling pronunciation) · de Aussprache nach dem Schriftbild (spelling pronunciation) · nb skriftspråksuttale (spelling pronunciation) · hu írás sugallta ejtés (spelling pronunciation) · nl spellinguitspraak (spelling pronunciation) · hu írás/írásmód/írott alak szerinti ejtés/ejtésmód/kiejtés (spelling pronunciation) · da skriftsprogsudtale (spelling pronunciation)