Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who adopts or favors phonetic spelling.
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- noun An expert in
phonetics
Etymologies
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Examples
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[Link] I'm no phoneticist, but wouldn't that be the pronunciation of "genoalogy"?
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At the same time, an incipient fight broke out on the other side of the arc of tables between the head of the lan-guage department at Mallorysport Academy and a spinsterish ama'teur phoneticist.
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At the same time, an incipient fight broke out on the other side of the arc of tables between the head of the language department at Mallorysport Academy and a spinsterish amateur phoneticist.
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“Dutch, the closest living relative of English, lost the d of what is etymologically the same word en centuries ago,” replied the foremost modern interpreter of Denmark’s grammarian and phoneticist Otto Jespersen, “and it gets along fine without it.”
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“Dutch, the closest living relative of English, lost the d of what is etymologically the same word en centuries ago,” replied the foremost modern interpreter of Denmark’s grammarian and phoneticist Otto Jespersen, “and it gets along fine without it.”
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“Dutch, the closest living relative of English, lost the d of what is etymologically the same word en centuries ago,” replied the foremost modern interpreter of Denmark’s grammarian and phoneticist Otto Jespersen, “and it gets along fine without it.”
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“Dutch, the closest living relative of English, lost the d of what is etymologically the same word en centuries ago,” replied the foremost modern interpreter of Denmark’s grammarian and phoneticist Otto Jespersen, “and it gets along fine without it.”
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My Fair Lady's phoneticist Henry Higgin, "There even are places where English completely disappears ...
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