• lugal
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    3 days ago

    Don’t most dictionaries have IPA next to the word?

    • lseif
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      too often it’s some proprietary phonetic spelling which barely makes sense even in the target dialect. yet they have the audacity to use square brackets for it.

      Worcestershire (noun)

      [ wurs - teir - sheh ]

      • lugal
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        These I totally hate. As a non native speaker, I have no intuition or at least IPA would be much easier for me. It’s called international for a reason. Good to know that native speakers have problems too, or maybe not good, you decide.

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        are you having trouble figuring out how to pronounce words because spelling rules aren’t consistent and don’t make sense? here’s how to pronounce them in a different spelling that follows the same rules.