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Multiple differences. Older Americans may use the British pronunciation, and some British dialects use the American pronunciation. BrE approximates more to French [aʒaksjo]; AmE reflects the word's Italian origin [aˈjattʃo] . The original Portuguese pronunciation is [alˈɣaɾvɨ] .
The 'y' represents the pronunciation of the original Urdu "pāy-jāma", and in the 18th century spellings such as "paijamahs" and "peijammahs" appeared: this is reflected in the pronunciation / p aɪ ˈ dʒ ɑː m ə z / (with the first syllable rhyming with "pie") offered as an alternative in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.
The " Himno Nacional de Uruguay " (English: "National Anthem of Uruguay" ), also known by its incipit " Orientales, la Patria o la Tumba " (English: "Easterners, [a] the Country or the Tomb" ), [1] is the longest national anthem in terms of duration with 105 bars of music. [2] When performed in its entirety, the anthem lasts about four-and-a ...
I’m in the Hamptons now,” referring to the playground for the rich and famous on Long Island, N.Y. “You go to a restaurant and you walk in, when you have a bad headline, everyone goes ...
Pronunciation is the way in which a word or a language is spoken. This may refer to generally agreed-upon sequences of sounds used in speaking a given word or language in a specific dialect ("correct" or "standard" pronunciation) or simply the way a particular individual speaks a word or language. Words' pronunciations can be found in reference ...
The Turabay dynasty was a family of Bedouin emirs who governed the district of Lajjun in northern Palestine during Ottoman rule in the 16th–17th centuries. The family's forebears had served as chiefs of Jezreel Valley during Mamluk rule in the late 15th century. During the Ottoman conquest of the region in 1516–1517, the family aided ...
Spelling pronunciation. A spelling pronunciation is the pronunciation of a word according to its spelling when this differs from a longstanding standard or traditional pronunciation. Words that are spelled with letters that were never pronounced or that were not pronounced for many generations or even hundreds of years have increasingly been ...
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain. [ 4][ 5][ 6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to Britain.