2021年4月9日 · Zurich: how to pronunce in British English? ... Zurich [BE pronunciation] Thread starter marcogaiotto ...

2013年3月1日 · ISO is read as individual letters: Eye Ess Oh. 14001 is read as fourteen thousand one. 9001 is nine thousand one.

2006年1月5日 · There is a long tradition, going back to Latin and beyond, of translating foreign names. I think this was, in part, because the locals couldn't pronounce the foreign names properly, and also because ancient inflected languages like Latin and Greek needed familiar word endings, to be able to decline the nouns (thus, Karol became Carolus, Heinrich became …

2010年3月28日 · I have 3 dictionaries (Oxford, Collins, Larousse) that describe Brazilian pronunciation on their first pages. I also use some online resources (thefreedictionary.com, forvo.com) to look things up or just listen to the pronunciation. Where the pronunciation (Brazilian Portuguese) is indicated in writing, it generally goes something like this:

2010年4月28日 · However, the original pronunciation was /ˈnɛsəl/, as in the English verb "nestle". This pronunciation was common throughout much of the 20th century, but changes in its spoken form in advertising influenced it to become more akin to its native pronunciation [nɛsle] in French-speaking Switzerland.

2024年11月13日 · This mistake is probably due to the fact that many people don't know the correct character for this pronunciation because this usage is very colloquial, rarely seen in written texts. Many people may not even know there is such a character since many dialectical words don't even have corresponding characters.

2017年9月18日 · To listen to the difference between /a/ and /æ/, listen to an old fashioned southern British pronunciation say from 1950 and a current pronunciation. An old fashioned British pronunciation has /æ/, and young listeners might think an old-fashioned 'cat' sounds more like 'ket'. Go here, for instance: Funny old vowels

2006年12月5日 · They are called vocalized pauses. My boyfriend, who is a journalist, once interviewed a writer he respected immensely — and, in the published transcript of the interview, he left in a few of the times the man said "you know," "like," "mmh" and "ah."

2013年8月6日 · The BrE pronunciation makes kudos less likely to be taken as the plural form of kudo. It's /ˈkjuːdɒs/ or KYOO-doss, the final syllable with the vowel of lot. I thought kudos was uncountable so there is no plural form. Oxford Dictionaries says:

2007年4月27日 · What does the expression "Gai paris" or "Le Gai Paris" actually mean.? It is used so often and a conventional Google search yields nary a hint as to its true meaning.