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- How to Pronounce "Ghoti" - Brief analysis of why "ghoti" may be pronounced as "fish".
- The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary - A machine-readable pronunciation dictionary for North American English that contains over 100,000 words and their transcriptions.
- Miss Pronouncer - Radio announcer presents MP3 files demonstrating how to pronounce names of Wisconsin places and people. Requires JavaScript; does not work in some browsers.
- How to Pronounce Massachusetts Names - Broken down by each county (with corresponding map) is each town in Massachusetts and a guide to saying the name properly.
- AsifSound vs. Spelling - American Dictionary - Spelling glossary indexed by its abstract grouping pronunciation (=Asifsound). AsifSound consists of 12 sound symbols. This is made from CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.
- Bishops Stortford High School - Foundation school for boys with a pronounced Christian ethos. It admits students aged 11-18 years. The sixth form admits girls and boys. School profile, faculty pages, extra-curricular activities and contacts.
- BBC: MP attacks Tory adoption stance - Liberal Democrat health spokesman and MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, Dr Evan Harris, said Tory pronouncements showed the party was failing to modernise.
- Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch - Provides information on the village and its name, along with a competition for anyone who wants to try and pronounce it. Also gives information about attractions in and near the village.
- The Guardian: Welsh Tongue-Twister Could Keep English at Bay - Article by Martin Wainwright on the suggestion by Alan Jones, the clerk to the village's community council, that pronouncing its name be used as a citizenship test for English people planning to move to Wales.
- Guernsey Financial Services Tribunal - Established by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission ("GFSC") by informal arrangement to hear and pronounce opinions on relevant challenges to decisions of GFSC or of Committees of the GFSC.
Wikipedia Articles
- CMU Pronouncing Dictionary - The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (also known as cmudict) is a public domain pronouncing dictionary created by Carnegie Mellon University. It is used as the American lexicon for the Festival Speech Synthesis System.
- Qari Shakir Qasmi - Qari Shakir Qasmi is one of the most renowned Qurra' (Quran reciters) of South Asia. He was the host of the program Iqra (Read) for children that provided lessons and exercises on properly reciting and pronouncing Quranic Arabic.
- Charles Stewart Parnell - Charles Stewart ParnellMost contemporaries pronounced his name as par-nell with the emphasis on the latter part of the name. He himself disapproved of this pronunciation, pronouncing his name par-nell, with the emphasis on the start of the name.
- Louis Gompertz - Martin Louis Alan Gompertz (1886-1951) was an Anglo-Indian soldier and writer, also known by the pseudonym of 'Ganpat', which was the nearest his Indian troops could get to pronouncing 'Gompertz'. Ganpat is another name for the elephant god Ganesh.
- Maulvi Mushtaq Hussain - Maulvi Mushtaq Hussain was a Pakistani jurist who served as chief justice of the high court of Lahore. He played a controversial role in pronouncing former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto guilty of murder and ordered his death.