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But, the guy mentioning how her pronunciation was the least of her worries (meaning he thinks she was saying Ubuntu wrong) So, he is actually reporting himself to be a complete moron ... because I would love to know where his sources for the pronunciation came from?

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  1. noun The act or manner of pronouncing words; utterance of speech.
  2. noun A way of speaking a word, especially a way that is accepted or generally understood.
  3. noun A graphic representation of the way a word is spoken, using phonetic symbols.

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  • You question just what sort of dictionary we are running that we do not give the proper pronunciation of a French word.
  • The rules and patterns for these now-irregular verbs were gradually displaced between the years 1200-1600 by changes in English pronunciation, a period linguists call The Great Vowel Shift.
  • In the afternoon he had a walk, but in the evening he went up again to the study, and remained there over an hour, giving a lesson in English pronunciation to one of his nephews. —  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • They were out of Oostish country, and her pronunciation was a little different, but there wasn't any mistaking what she meant. —  THE BLOOD KNIGHT
  • First, a mini lesson in Hawaiian pronunciation: There is a break after every vowel. —  Quilly's WordPress Blog
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  1. Middle English, from Old French prononciation, from Latin prōnūntiātiō, prōnūntiātiōn-, from prōnūntiātus, past participle of prōnūntiāre, to pronounce; see pronounce.

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  1. from French pronunciation = Spanish pronunciacion = Portuguese pronunciação = Italian pronunciazione, from Latin pronuntiatio(n-), pronunciatio(n-), a proclamation, a publication, from pronuntiare, pronunciare, proclaim, announce: see pronounce.
 

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