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“dispatch” v “despatch” [closed]
Using it in the example of:
Can you log despatch and delivery of documents?
Three questions:
Is despatch a misspelling of dispatch that made its way into the dictionary? Could I use dispatch ...
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Are “flower” and “flour” always homophones?
Flower and flour are said to be homophones. However, considering the number of different pronunciations (/flaʊə/ like BrE sour, /flou(-ə)r/ like AmE sour, /flɑː/ (forvo) like BrE car, etc.) floating ...
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Are “rode” and “rowed” pronounced the same?
Is there an English accent which would distinguish these two sentences?
He rode from the bridge to the pier.
He rowed from the bridge to the pier.
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Do “here” and “hear” have the same phonetic transcription in the same country?
Is there any accent that makes a distinction when pronuncing “here” and “hear”?
From Wiktionary:
Here
(UK) /hɪə(ɹ)/
(US) /hɪɹ/
Hear
(UK) /hɪə(ɹ)/
(US) IPA: /hiːɹ/
So, according to that, US ...
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What is the correct pronunciation of the word “route”?
I have always used both "root" as in route 66 and "rooter" as in the networking device. The latter has gotten me funny looks often, however I could not bring myself to accept the inconsistency. Today ...
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Is there a difference in pronunciation between “steal” and “steel”? [closed]
I'm learning English and recently I have found that there is a difference in pronunciation between such words as: hit and heat, sit and seat.
I want to know if there is a similar difference in ...
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Pronunciation: “use” versus “use”
Compare pronunciations:
"I want to use the bathroom" (yoos)
"I made use of the bathroom." (yus)
My poor attempt at creating a phonetically descriptive syntax is supposed to convey that, with the ...
