It remains the accent upon which dictionary pronunciation guides are based, and for teaching English as a foreign language.

Regional dialects in the United States typically reflect some elements of the language of the main immigrant groups in any particular region of the country, especially in terms of pronunciation and vernacular vocabulary.

Differences between the two include pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary ( lexis ), spelling, punctuation, idioms, formatting of dates and numbers, although the differences in written and most spoken grammar structure tend to be much less than those of other aspects of the language in terms of mutual intelligibility.

Modern Bulgarian was based essentially on the Eastern dialects of the language, but its pronunciation is in many respects a compromise between East and West Bulgarian ( see especially the phonetic sections below ).

The difference between the pronunciation and spelling of " chicano " and " mexicano " stems from the fact that the modern-day Spanish language experienced a change in pronunciation regarding a majority of words containing the " x " ( for example: México, Ximenez, Xavier, Xarabe ).

Although the words written in it are close enough to Italian and Latin for the non-Corsican speaker with a language background to follow, the pronunciation of those letters in English, French or Italian is not a guide to the pronunciation of Corsican, which follows complex rules.

The latter was composed using the rules of pronunciation of the Irish language and as such is extremely difficult for non-Irish speakers to read or perform.

The Outline of English Phonetics which followed in 1918 is the first truly comprehensive description of British Received Pronunciation, and indeed the first such description of the standard pronunciation of any language.

In general, English spelling does not reflect the sound changes in the pronunciation of the language that have occurred since the late fifteenth century.

Furigana are also often used in foreign language textbooks for Japanese learners to indicate pronunciation.

The Great Vowel Shift was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1700 .< ref >

Hebrew has always been used as the language of prayer and study, and the following pronunciation systems are found.

* Hebrew language, alphabet and pronunciation

Modern English as spoken in Ireland today retains some features showing the influence of the Irish language, such as vocabulary, grammatical structure and pronunciation.

Following a change in vowel pronunciation that marks the transition of English from the medieval to the Renaissance period, the language of the Chancery and Caxton became Early Modern English ( the language of Shakespeare's day ) and with relatively moderate changes eventually developed into the English language of today.

The Inuit language of Quebec is called Inuttitut by its speakers, and often by other people, but this is a minor variation in pronunciation.

In many cases, this written language reflected Mandarin varieties, and since pronunciation differences were not conveyed in this written form, this tradition had a unifying force across all the Mandarin-speaking regions and beyond.

While Zhuyin is not used as a mainstream writing system, it is still often used in ways similar to a romanization system — that is, for aiding in pronunciation and as an input method for Chinese characters on computers and cellphones.

Egyptians today often refer to Cairo as Maṣr (), the Arabic pronunciation of the name for Egypt itself, emphasizing the city's continued role in Egyptian influence.

* Canadians side with the British on the pronunciation of shone, often lever, and several other words ; been is pronounced by many speakers as rather than ; as in Southern England, either and neither are more commonly and, respectively.

The letter ⟨ e ⟩ also often marks an altered pronunciation of a preceding vowel.

Furigana also appear often on maps to show the pronunciation of unusual place names.

According to Steve Wilhite, the creator of the GIF format, the original pronunciation deliberately echoes the American peanut butter brand, Jif, and the employees of CompuServe would often say " Choosy developers choose GIF ", spoofing this brand's television commercials.

Because of their shared histories and the similarities between the pronunciation, vocabulary and accent of American English and Canadian English, the two spoken languages are often grouped together under a single category.

For languages whose writing systems employ the phonemic principle, ordinary letters may be used to denote phonemes, although this approach is often hampered by the complexity of the relationship between orthography and pronunciation ( see Correspondence between letters and phonemes below ).

RP is often used as the standard for English in most books on general phonology and phonetics and is represented in the pronunciation schemes of most dictionaries published in the United Kingdom.

A Latino North Hollywood resident who speaks with a thick Cuban American accent, and often refers to himself in the third person, insisting on the English pronunciation of his name rather than the Spanish.

Uyghur is often pronounced by English speakers, though an acceptable English pronunciation closer to the Uyghur people's pronunciation of it would be.

* Most recursive acronyms are recursive on the first letter, which is therefore an arbitrary choice, often selected for reasons of humour, ease of pronunciation, or consistency with an earlier acronym that used the same letters for different words, such as PHP: PHP Hypertext Preprocessor, which was originally " Personal home page ".

The Scots pronunciation of wh as becomes English south of Carlisle but remains in Northumberland, but Northumberland realises “ r ” as, often called the burr, which is not a Scots realisation.

Most of those Russian influenced words are slightly anglicized loan-words often maintaining the original Russian pronunciation.

As demonstrated by the fate of many replaced European languages ( such as Etruscan, Breton, and Venetian ), the influence of the substrate on the official speech is often limited to pronunciation and a modest number of loanwords.

Because the symbol had no stated pronunciation, he was often referred to as " The Artist Formerly Known as Prince ", as well as " The Artist ".

During Middle Chinese times, newly created characters tended to match pronunciation exactly, other than the tone – often by using as the phonetic component a character that itself is a radical-phonetic compound.

Very often, a word-final consonant was not expressed in writing – and was possibly omitted in pronunciation – so it surfaced only when followed by a vowel: for example the / k / of the genitive case ending-ak does not appear in e < sub > 2 </ sub > lugal-la " the king's house ", but becomes obvious in e < sub > 2 </ sub > lugal-la-kam "( it ) is the king's house " ( compare liaison in French ).

The sound values often changed significantly, both during the initial creation of new alphabets, and due to pronunciation changes of languages using the alphabets over time.

The colloquial Arabic pronunciation of the name often omit the unstressed second syllable and render it as Fatma when romanized.

The characters themselves are often composed of parts that may represent physical objects, abstract notions, or pronunciation.

Instead, about 90 % of Chinese characters are compounds of a determinative ( called a ' radical '), which may not exist independently, and a phonetic complement indicates the approximant pronunciation of the morpheme.

* Ideographic writing, by definition, refers to things or ideas independently of their pronunciation in any language.

With over a century of use, Esperanto has developed a phonological norm, including accepted details of phonetics, phonotactics, and intonation, so that it is now possible to speak of proper Esperanto pronunciation and properly formed words independently of the languages originally used to describe Esperanto.