📚 noun • entry_id 57729
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pronunciación ortográfica
A pronunciation that has been modified from its traditional form in order to reflect (one or another interpretation of) the spelling of the word in question.
Jespersen ([1909] 1954) says that spelling pronunciation has affected the pronunciation of all the following words: second (1:25); nephew (1:42); theater, apothecary, catholic, thr…
The audio contained some spelling pronunciations, such as when "sieve" was mistakenly portrayed as rhyming with "leave".
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