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Phonetically
Phonetically meaning
In the way it sounds, particularly: written to describe the sound rather than the dictionary spelling.
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Mr Rowe said: 'To have a child caller that young and that confident is quite rare, especially when it comes to being able to provide the postcode of their address phonetically.
The number of morons who give their spawn a phonetically incorrect name, then ridicule people who don't pronounce it "correctly".
These names were often phonetically adapted by early settlers, but not quite in a way that rolled off the tongue!
She tweeted: “They are announcing it phonetically!
Saying “shadow banning” out loud the way they’ve decided to write it phonetically on these placards is VERY fun.
The goal of the class is to allow students to learn, recognize and reproduce more than 100 signs, while also gaining the ability to spell and read fingerspelling phonetically.
A few languages also have pre-glottalized nasal clicks, which have very brief prenasalization but have not been phonetically analyzed to the extent that other types of clicks have.
Affricates often behave as if they were intermediate between stops and fricatives, but phonetically they are sequences of a stop and fricative.
All the clusters are shown in the following table, phonetically, i.e. superscript ʰ can mark either contrastive or non-contrastive aspiration (see above).
Also, the letter can be phonetically respelled, for example, the word "piss" was shortened to "pee" (pronounced as the letter P) in this way.
Analysis of the traditional literature has also been used, as the Middle Cornish plays were often written in rhyming verse, and Late Cornish texts were written phonetically following English spelling conventions.
Both writing systems represent the language phonetically.
Cameron, George G. Persepolis Treasury Tablets, University of Chicago Press, 1948, pp. 115. Phonetically, this is interpreted as /tiračis/ or /ćiračis/.
For example, they differ in the extent to which they require allophones to be phonetically similar.
Generally it is the final syllable containing the inflectional ending is written phonetically.
However, the bomber has been commonly called the "Bone"; a nickname that appears to stem from an early newspaper article on the aircraft wherein its name was phonetically spelled out as "B-ONE" with the hyphen inadvertently omitted.
However, this does not apply when kanji are used phonetically to write words that do not relate directly to the meaning of the kanji (see also ateji ).
In all five of the southeastern Bantu languages named, the murmured stops (even if they are realised phonetically as devoiced aspirates) have a marked tone-lowering (or tone-depressing) effect on the following tautosyllabic vowels.
In dictionaries Most English dictionaries published in Britain (including the Oxford English Dictionary) now give phonetically transcribed RP pronunciations for all words.
In Mandarin Chinese, "Yalu" phonetically approximates the original Manchu word "Yalu", but literally means "Duck Green", which was said to have been once the color of the river.