Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being pronounced or uttered.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being pronounced.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
distinctly pronounced inspeech ;enunciable . - adjective Capable of being
expressed ;sayable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being uttered or pronounced
Etymologies
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Examples
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The reason that I bothered with the argument of vowelless [mz] being pronounceable is simply that I do, in fluent speech, usually produce the vowelless [mz], and therefore wanted to explain the more objectionable position, figuring the vowelled pronunciation of Ms. could defend itself.
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AMUN, among the Egyptians, was a name pronounceable by none save the
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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“Al-Kajari” is the corruption, which denotes its foreign origin, and renders its name pronounceable to Arabs.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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Amun's name pronounceable only by the Egyptian Priests, 621-l.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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It's telling that Cameron describes the resulting tongue as something that is "pronounceable" yet sounds "exotic and not specific to human languages."
Utter Coolness delagar 2009
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In an earlier issue of VERBATIM writers have commented on what have come to be called "bacronyms," names of companies, products, charities, and other institutions that have been chosen solely because their acronyms yield words that are pronounceable, meaningful, or both.
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Popping into the oven, I perused the ingredients list which again was mercifully short and pronounceable, but odd.
A Miss and a Surprise Hit Sarah 2009
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Popping into the oven, I perused the ingredients list which again was mercifully short and pronounceable, but odd.
Archive 2009-07-01 Sarah 2009
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Mr. Alter conducted a similar study in 2006 showing that companies with pronounceable ticker symbols—such as RAD for Rite Aid Corp.—performed better in the stock market following an initial public offering.
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I was the guest at the Science Fiction Society of Northern New Jersey, famous for having the least-pronounceable acronym in skiffydom.
May 17th, 2009 m_francis 2009
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