Blaze (he/him) to Linguistics [email protected]English • 3 months agoThe wonders of English spellingfiles.catbox.moeimagemessage-square106fedilinkarrow-up1496arrow-down126
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minus-squareEunielinkfedilinkEnglish38•3 months agoStupid question: Doesn’t a dictionary also contain the phonetic spelling?
minus-square@SkullgridlinkEnglish29•3 months agoyes but no one gets taught to drink IPAs in school, you do that at university
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•3 months agothe more you drink the more you understand vowel shift and consonant ellision
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•3 months agoYup, it usually has a pronunciation guide with IPA rules or whatever.
Stupid question: Doesn’t a dictionary also contain the phonetic spelling?
yes but no one gets taught to drink IPAs in school, you do that at university
the more you drink the more you understand vowel shift and consonant ellision
Yup, it usually has a pronunciation guide with IPA rules or whatever.