Pronunciation

As you listen to chemists talking about chemicals, you will soon realize that there is no strict protocol for pronunciation. Even simple words like ethyl produce a variety of sounds. Many chemists say eethyle , but the Atlantic divide gives us ethel with short e s, and continental European chemists often revert 

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Coffee was originally consumed as a food in ancient Abyssinia and was presumably first cultivated by the Arabians in about 575 AD (1). By the sixteenth century it had become a popular drink in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey. The name coffee is derived from the Turkish pronunciation, kahveh, of the Arabian word gahweh signifying an infusion of the bean. Coffee was introduced as a beverage in Europe early in the seventeenth century and its use spread quickly. In 1725, the first coffee plant in the western hemisphere was planted on Martinique, West Indies. Its cultivation expanded rapidly and its consumption soon gained wide acceptance. 

Example 1 the English pronunciation of benzene sounds like benzyne in Dutch, consequently a verbal instruction to add benzene to a process in distress could have dire consequences. 

A partial listing of phonemes and pronunciations used by NETtalk after appendix A... 

The first syllable of every prefix is accented to assure that the prefix will retain its identity. Pronunciation of kilometer places the accent on the first syllable, not the second. 

Two more things. Watch your spelling and pronunciation. It s not in-fared, OK And most people I know use IR (pronounced eye-are, not ear ) to refer to the technique, the instrument, and the chart recording of the spectrum ... 

Correct use of the language, especially the written language, is an important factor. Law, like chemistry, demands a specialized vocabulary. Chemists, of course, are required to use a system of chemical nomenclature which is complex but logical. It further requires a person to develop precision in using words. In chemistry, for example, there is not much difference in the spelling or often in the pronunciation of words such as... 

Henry F. Beechhold, Pronunciation Editor Professor Emeritus of English Former Chairman, Linguistics Program The College of New fersey Trenton, New fersey... 

The element lead (noun) and the vetb led (past tense/past participle) have the same pronunciation. Be careful not to confuse them in your writing. 

Rule 8 Preface abbreviations and acronyms, when appropriate, with articles a and an according to the pronunciation (not the letter) of the hrst sound of the abbreviation or acronym ... 

Numerous word pairs are commonly confused by writers. The confusion often stems from similar pronunciations or spellings. For example, the words affect and effect sound similar, so they are often used incorrectly, confusing the reader. Using the correct word and spelling promote unambiguous communication. In chemistry writing, affect and effect are typically used as follows ... 

This is the name that God gives himself when talking to Moses at Mount Horeb in the Sinai wilderness. Because Jews almost always prohibited its utterance, the actual pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton is not known today. miT is commonly pronounced Jehovah, though this is inaccurate. Some scholars conjecture that it was pronounced Yahweh. The Tetragrammaton may have a cryptic meaning such as I Am the One Who Is or He Causes to Become. ... 

Let s trace this word back in time a few centuries. One of the most important functions that occurred in the Temple of Jerusalem was the pronunciation of God s name. In practice, the Tetragrammaton could only be spoken safely by the High Priest in the Temple because it needed the huge physical and ritual structure to contain its power. Because the Temple was destroyed, orthodox Jews never pronounce God s name for any reason. 

Many of these reality-changing names were top secret. Today, we don t know the meaning of all nor how to pronounce them. We ve already mentioned the Tetragrammaton, whose pronunciation has been lost. 

His obscurity index is 0.1. David constructed several different lists of his ten favorite words — using various criteria for how he defined favorite. His initial list contained unusual words that he liked because of either their interesting meanings or pronunciations, but eventually he settled upon the ten words that simply made him the most happy to hear. 

Dictionaries Lists of words, their meanings, usage, history, pronunciation, and so on Webster s New Collegiate Dictionary, Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology, Harvard Dictionary of Music... 

The same small corpus of Chinese surnames served for Vietnam and Korea, though the pronunciation of the characters varied even more widely than in Chinese dialects. Nothing so radically marked out the distinctiveness of Vietnam from China than the romanisation of names, along with the rest of the language, in the early twentieth century. When all those with one Chinese character (Ruan in pinyin) became Nguyen, and with another (Pan in pinyin) became Phan, they parted company with the Chinese naming world in a way that could not be rejoined. 

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