Pronunciation in a second or foreign language involves more than the correct articulation of individual sounds.

In BrE, both irregular and regular forms are current, but for some words ( such as smelt and leapt ) there is a strong tendency towards the irregular forms, especially by users of Received Pronunciation.

For example, while the words hard and singer would be pronounced and in Received Pronunciation, they would be pronounced and in General American.

( In Received Pronunciation in the United Kingdom, these words would be pronounced and, respectively.

The Wikipedia page on Pronunciation of English th lists " Gaithersburg " among the many words and proper names of English origin in which non-initial TH is soft, as in " bathe " and " whether.

Pronunciation has shifted to a hard TH, consistent with the consonant's pronunciation in the multitude of words of Greek origin assimilated into English by scholars during the Enlightenment and invented by scientists and engineers during the scientific and technological boom of the 20th century.

Giveaway features include the characteristic pronunciation of the diphthong in words like " cow ", which is more closed and rounded than in Received Pronunciation or General American ; the pronunciation of the strut vowel ( again, more closed than the RP or GenAm version, though not as closed as in the Creole ); semi-rhoticity, i. e. the dropping of the "- r " in words like " water " ( at the end of unstressed syllables ) and " market " ( before a consonant ); but not in words like " car " or " dare " ( stressed syllables at the end of the word ).

The Pronunciation Lexicon Specification ( PLS ) is used to define how words are pronounced.

But lexical set BATH ( words such as " rather ", " dance ", and " half ") patterns with PATH in some accents including Received Pronunciation but with TRAP in others including General American.

In English, only function words begin with voiced th-( see Pronunciation of English th ).

English is a stress-timed language, and both syllable stress and word stress, where only certain words in a sentence or phrase are stressed, are important features of Received Pronunciation.

A feature that some Boston English speakers share with Received Pronunciation is the so-called Broad A: In some words that in other accents have, such as half and bath, that vowel is replaced with:,.

) Fewer words have the Broad A in Boston English than in Received Pronunciation, and fewer and fewer Boston speakers maintain the Broad A system as time goes on, but it is still noticeable.

Pronunciation of words like " middle " and " college " become and respectively.

The final vowel of words like happy and coffee is a reduced front close unrounded vowel most commonly represented with, although some dialects ( including more traditional Received Pronunciation ) may have.

Some examples of words with unstressed syllables that are often pronounced with full vowels in Received Pronunciation are given below ( pronunciation may be different in other varieties of English ).

Pronunciation spellings may be used informally to indicate the pronunciation of foreign words or those whose spelling is irregular or not sufficient to deduce the pronunciation.

Pronunciation of Ndebele words is relatively easy in comparison to many languages because the vowels are quite constant, with each vowel having basically one sound, and the accent is usually on the penultimate syllable.

Pronunciation also tends to be very different, with East Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia speaking a dialect called Bahasa Baku, where the words are pronounced as spelt and enunciation tends to be clipped, staccato and faster than the Malay spoken in the Malay Peninsula, which is spoken at a more languorous pace.

Non-RP Britons abroad may modify their pronunciation to something closer to Received Pronunciation in order to be understood better by people unfamiliar with the diversity of British accents.

Rosewarne argued that it may eventually replace Received Pronunciation in the south-east.

* Wiktionary: Pronunciation-entries in the English Wiktionary may contain a Pronunciation section

Pronunciation varies: and are both common .< ref > The latter form may derive from the historic form of the name, " Chollerton " ( which is recorded as " Chowlerton " in the 17th century )

Pronunciation of,, and, as well as other sounds may be also different.

Pronunciation spellings as deliberate misspellings may be used for humorous effect.

The differences between the various regional dialects may be compared with those of General American, Australian English, and British Received Pronunciation.

This change is not universal for British English and traditionally is not considered a feature of Received Pronunciation.

Even in the age of modern communications and mass media, according to one study, "… although the Received Pronunciation of Standard English has been heard constantly on radio and then television for over 60 years, only 3 to 5 % of the population of Britain actually speaks RP … new brands of English have been springing up even in recent times ...." What the vernacular would be in this case is a moot point: "… the standardisation of English has been in progress for many centuries.

For most ordinary local Hongkongers however, the English spoken is generally typical of foreign language learners: Cantonese-influenced pronunciation with some acquired Received Pronunciation characteristics, and with vocabularies and sentence structure generally more formal than those of native speakers.

* Jones, D. 1909 ), " The Pronunciation of English ", Cambridge: CUP ; rpt in facsimile in Jones ( 2002 ).

* Jones, D. and M. Trofimov ( 1923 ), " The Pronunciation of Russian ", Cambridge: CUP ; rpt in facsimile in Jones ( 2002 ).

Pronunciation is shown as ( nēŏtˈnē ) and in IPA notation it is / niˈɒtni / as can be inferred from the Pronunciation Key .</ ref >, < i > Neoteny .</ i > ( 2012 ).

" Lexicon of Reconstructed Pronunciation in Early Middle Chinese, Late Middle Chinese, and Early Mandarin " ( UBC Press, 1991 ).

Native English speakers ( white, Indian and Coloured or Cape Coloured ) in South Africa have an accent that generally resembles British Received Pronunciation ( modified with varying degrees of Germanic inflection due to Afrikaans ).

He composed the famous Yongbi Eocheon Ga (" Songs of Flying Dragons ", 1445 ), Seokbo Sangjeol (" Episodes from the Life of Buddha ", July 1447 ), Worin Cheon-gang Jigok (" Songs of the Moon Shining on a Thousand Rivers ", July 1447 ), and the reference Dongguk Jeong-un (" Dictionary of Proper Sino-Korean Pronunciation ", September 1447 ).

Pronunciation of Standard German was first prescribed in 1898 in the Deutsche Bühnenaussprache of Theodor Siebs – originally intended only for the field of theatre and movies ( = stage ).

" Modern pronunciation differs in some aspects from Siebs ' description and the current state is commonly recorded in the Duden series ( volume 4: – The Pronunciation Dictionary ).

Interviews show him speaking with a Received Pronunciation accent, despite coming from a working-class background ( during Euro 96, much was made in the English media of the difference between his accent and the unabashed Cockney tones of Terry Venables, his successor who also came from Dagenham, and what this said about social changes in England ).

The main characteristics of the accent are set out below, usually with reference to the standard English accent known as Received Pronunciation or BBC Pronunciation ( henceforth abbreviated as RP / BBC ).

This is Received Pronunciation specifically, but other standards have emerged since the early 20th century ( General American, General Australian ).

He was a pupil and colleague of Daniel Jones, and is known for having updated and extended Jones ’ s description of standard British English pronunciation ( Received Pronunciation, or RP ).

In some accents of English, such as Received Pronunciation, the phoneme has " dark " and " light " allophones: the " dark ", velarized allophone appears in syllable coda position ( e. g. in full ), while the " light ", non-velarized allophone appears in syllable onset position ( e. g. in lawn ).

He was also responsible for the British element of the Oxford Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English ( 2001 ).

The commission was influenced by Received Pronunciation and other non-rhotic English English dialects, in which " ar " ( without a following vowel ) is also pronounced as long " a " ( often given as " ah " in American English ).

* The Received Pronunciation phonemes ( as in face ) and ( as in goat ) are often pronounced as monophthongs ( such as and ), or as older diphthongs ( such as and ).