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spelling pronunciation

spelling pronunciation noun: 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.

Noun

spelling pronunciation (plural spelling pronunciations)

  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...1988, D. W. Cummings, American English Spelling: An Informal Description, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 23

Forms of spelling pronunciation

pluralspelling pronunciations

Origin of spelling pronunciation

From spelling + pronunciation.

Questions about spelling pronunciation

What does spelling pronunciation mean?
Spelling pronunciation means 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.
What part of speech is spelling pronunciation?
Spelling pronunciation is a noun.
What is the plural of spelling pronunciation?
The plural of spelling pronunciation is spelling pronunciations.

Words near spelling pronunciation in the dictionary

  1. spelling doom
  2. spelling it out
  3. spelling off
  4. spelling one's name
  5. spelling out
  6. spelling pronunciation
  7. spelling pronunciations
  8. spelling reform
  9. spelling reformer
  10. spelling reformers
  11. spelling reformist

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