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adjective
- 1. disturbing because concerned with or causing a fear of death: "a macabre series of murders" Similar
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Jun 8, 2011 · Macabre is basically pronounced [makabʁ] in French, where /ʁ/ is a voiced uvular fricative. The closest sound in English is, of course, /ɹ/ (the "r" sound, hereafter written as r). Note that there is a [bʁ] sequence at the end of the word. This [ʁ] is basically stranded at the end of the word, with no real vowel connected to it.
May 20, 2019 · The first instance of the word Macabre is in Jean le Fèvre's poem Respit de la Mort. Here is how the word appears in a 14th century manuscript, Francais 994. Je fis de macabre la dance (close-up on image from Martin Hagstrøm) (I have done the dance of macabre) Where does Jean's word Macabre come from? That is difficult to determine.
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.
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.
Mar 5, 2012 · Furthermore, it is a completely non-obvious pronunciation if you don’t already know that char is short for character and how character is pronounced. This form is very similar to #3, being quite faithful to the underlying form, but with the advantage of not violating the phonotactic constraint against words ending in /ær/.
May 23, 2011 · /kæʃ/ is the original pronunciation, as from the original French 'cache'. /keɪʃ/ is widely heard in the IT world and elsewhere. Both are therefore "correct" in the sense that they will be correctly understood by a wide cross-section of English speakers. I believe there's a preference for /keɪʃ/ in IT circles, but I certainly use both in a ...
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".
"Pronunciation" and "pronunciative" seem to be words, so it would seem natural that "pronunciate" would be. After Googling, I found the following here : "Pronunciate" is a word that isn't listed in most dictionaries; Dictionary.com does mention it, but it noted that "pronunciate" is used rarely.
Aug 28, 2013 · Cambridge Dictionaries online pronunciation guide gives only "ishoo" as the British pronunciation, but perhaps they are not set up in a way that allows alternative minority versions. I think that "issyoo" has its main stronghold among politicians, and in the broadcast legacy media such as the BBC and C4.
Apr 21, 2011 · It was probably originally pronunced /kənˌgrætjuˈleɪʃənz/, much closer to the British pronunciation. I suspect that first, the /t/ turned into a /d/, and then the /dj/ turned into a /dʒ/, giving /kənˌgrædʒuˈleɪʃənz/. (Merriam-Webster says both /tʃ/ and /dʒ/ are valid pronunciations, but does not mention /tj/; I use /dʒ/.)
