acronyms - What is the correct pronunciation of "AJAX"? - English ...
I have wondered for a while about how I should pronounce "AJAX" (asynchronous JavaScript and XML). I usually say "I-acs", as in the Amsterdam football club, but should I say "a-jacs" (as it looks in
pronunciation - Why is Nike pronounced "naikee" and not "naik ...
2017年11月22日 · The pronunciation of a vowel in a word from Greek or Latin according to one pronunciation system or the other is often inconsistent and hard to explain; e.g. restored /ɑː/ is almost always used nowadays in the word "drama", but fairly rarely used in the word "data" (a word that also shows variation, apparently especially in American English ...
pronunciation - How is "æ" supposed to be pronounced? - English ...
2012年6月14日 · The pronunciation of Old English "ash" is irrelevant to the pronunciation of the ligature æ in English words taken from Latin. History of the Latin "ae" digraph. The Latin ae digraph replaced an ai digraph that was used in Old Latin. Scholars think that the sound was pronounced as a diphthong [ai] in the Old Latin stage.
acronyms - LEDs and the correct pronunciation - English Language ...
In Australia, among technical folks (Engineers and Technicians) since the 1970's the pronunciation was as in the word 'led'. Recently in lighting commercials for the great unwashed, the pronunciation is to pronounce each letter individually. I have also noted that amongst the technically uneducated, the preferred pronunciation is L E D.
american english - Data pronunciation: "dayta" or "dahta"?
2014年12月6日 · It seems that the correct pronunciation of "data" is a matter of geography and not so much of grammar. Well, I know this is not the most comprehensive study, but I wanted to share an interesting case of 'day-ta' vs. 'dah-ta'.
Why is the spelling of "pronounce" and "pronunciation" different?
As for why the word pronounce has an O between the two N’s and pronunciation does not, it is unclear, but both words derive from French, pronunciation from pronunciation and pronounce from pronuncier. There is probably some variation in the way the different word stress affected how the words were spelled after being borrowed into English.
pronunciation - How to pronounce "tuple"? - English Language
2017年4月13日 · By “tupple” I mean /tʌpəl/, a pronunciation which is more or less the same all mainstream accents of English. By “tewple” I mean a pronunciation that starts the same way as “Tuesday”, a word whose pronunciation varies by accent: /tjuːpəl/ “tyoople” like /tjuːz/ ("tyooz")-day in accents that maintain word-initial /tj/ clusters
pronunciation - Correct way to say "km²" - English Language
2011年10月12日 · I believe that people say "kilometers squared" when reading off a formula or a value because this word order matches the order of the characters on the page, which means they don't need to "read ahead" to see the 2 before saying "kilometer" as they read the formula from left to right.
pronunciation - How to pronounce the letter 'i' - English Language ...
There is no pronunciation to learn. You look at the word and you know how to say it. Period. It doesn’t matter whether you’ve seen the word before. Its pronunciation is fixed. Many languages work this way. It’s not unusual for people coming from such a language to desire the same sensibility in English. –
pronunciation - How does one pronounce the '@' symbol?
Many years ago, when email addresses were a rarity (probably 1988 or so), the British newspaper The Guardian asked readers of the technology supplement to answer this question.