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for questions about the sound, stress, or intonation of spoken words.
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What is the pronunciation of parenthesized ‘read’?
It is pronounced /rid/ ("reed").
Here is what the OED has to say about this question:
9. a. To adopt, give, or exhibit as a reading in a particular passage.
Hence, to substitute or understand f …
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What words are commonly mispronounced by literate people who read them before they heard them?
I believe there's a fair amount of agreement that the correct pronunciation is /rid/ ("reed"). …