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nonacrophonic

nonacrophonic adjective: not acrophonic; having a name whose initial sound differs from the sound it represents.

Adjective

nonacrophonic (not comparable)

  1. Not acrophonic; having a name whose initial sound differs from the sound it represents.
    • Children may have more to gain from acrophonic first letters than from nonacrophonic letters since it is easier to recognize /b/ in 'bear' than /es/ in 'stone.'2009, Anna C. Both-de Vries, Adriana G. Bus, “It's All in the Name”, in Dorit Aram, Ofra Korat, editor, Literacy Development and Enhancement Across Orthographies and Cultures, page 10
    • Some languages have only acrophonic letter names, and others have some phonetically iconic but nonacrophonic names as well.2014, Rebecca Treiman, Brett Kessler, How Children Learn to Write Words, page 197

Origin of nonacrophonic

From non- + acrophonic.

Questions about nonacrophonic

What does nonacrophonic mean?
Nonacrophonic means not acrophonic; having a name whose initial sound differs from the sound it represents.
What part of speech is nonacrophonic?
Nonacrophonic is an adjective.

Words near nonacrophonic in the dictionary

  1. nonacrimonious
  2. nonacrobatic
  3. nonacrocentric
  4. nonacronymous
  5. nonacrophobic
  6. nonacrophonic
  7. nonacrosomal
  8. nonacrostic
  9. nonacrylic
  10. nonact
  11. nonactable

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