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- Dictionarybald/bɔːld/
adjective
- 1. having a scalp wholly or partly lacking hair: "he was starting to go bald" Similar Opposite
- 2. not having any extra detail or explanation; plain or blunt: "the bald statement in the preceding paragraph requires amplification" Similar Opposite
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Jan 28, 2016 · The pronunciation of "bald" as /bɔ:ld/ is older. What seems to have happened historically for some speakers of British English is phonemic shortening of the sound /ɔ:/ to /ɒ/ in some cases when it comes before a consonant cluster /lC/ (where C stands for any consonant). This change, and the resulting variation in pronunciation, is described ...
Apr 26, 2008 · The problem is that native speakers distinguish ball from bowl and bald from bold, but they do so in a variety of different ways, depending on region, class etc. I have a Belgian francophone friend who generally pronounces his vowels like a South Londoner, and has been here 15 years, but who still can't distinguish bald/bold and ball/bowl convincingly and consistently.
Sep 9, 2020 · I don't think bald and bored are identical in most BrE accents. The vowel is the same, but you can hear my /l/ sound in bald. It is true that the <l> can be pronounced can be pronounced like a vowel 'oo' in some accents (like Cockney), which can make bald similar (but not identical) to bored.
Sep 18, 2017 · Senior Member. Spain. Spanish - Spain Catalan - Valencia. Sep 19, 2017. #10. In what we could call an "English pronounciation from Albacete" I hear something like "boold" (bald) and "bould" (bold). They're not homophones even to our Spanish ears (although I couldn't say if it's the case in every English dialect).
Sep 11, 2014 · When using just the character "a", the correct is "à". The pronunciation is practically the same as "o" in "ouch". 2. "ã and a" are the same and are practically the same as "un" in "under". When used as a letter, "a" has the same pronunciation as "à". Again, just "ã" does not exist. 3. "â" is the same as "ã". Again, just â" does not exist.
Jun 14, 2012 · The pronunciation of Old English "ash" is irrelevant to the pronunciation of the ligature æ in English words taken from Latin. History of the Latin "ae" digraph. The Latin ae digraph replaced an ai digraph that was used in Old Latin. Scholars think that the sound was pronounced as a diphthong [ai] in the Old Latin stage.
Sep 17, 2012 · The /ˈɛryən/ pronunciation is just a result of English phonology processing a foreign borrowing that starts with the letters AR. Aryan is a borrowed word in all languages outside the Indo-Iranian subfamily of Indo-European. The rest of the world pronounces it as some variant of [arjan], which comes, as noted, from Sanskrit ārya /a:ryə ...
As for why the word pronounce has an O between the two N’s and pronunciation does not, it is unclear, but both words derive from French, pronunciation from pronunciation and pronounce from pronuncier. There is probably some variation in the way the different word stress affected how the words were spelled after being borrowed into English.
Dec 19, 2013 · Early dictionary coverage of 'quim' Francis Grose, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1785) has nine slang terms for "the private parts" of a girl or woman—to wit: bumbo, Carvel's ring, cauliflower, cock alley (or cock lane), commodity, madge, money, muff, and notch, plus an unidentified tenth one, ****, that appears in the entry for cauliflower.
Although few Americans would say "potahto" or "tomahto" these days, there still remains a divide in the pronunciation of either, sometimes within the same speaker. Many Americans, even ones who use what you call the British pronunciation most of the time, will say "eether" in constructions like "an 'either/or' proposition".
