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AIRMET

There are three types of AIRMET, all identified by a phonetic letter: S (Sierra), T (Tango), and Z (Zulu).

Alveolar fricative

Voiced alveolar fricative, written as z in English and the International Phonetic Alphabet

Voiceless alveolar fricative, written as s in English and the International Phonetic Alphabet

Aquitanian language

The placenames that end in ‑os, ‑osse, ‑ons, ‑ost and ‑oz are considered to be of Aquitanian origin, such as the place-name Biscarrosse, which is directly related to the city of Biscarrués (note the Navarro-Aragonese phonetic change) south of the Pyrenees.

B

Ъ ъ : Cyrillic letter Yer (also known as the hard sign, back yer, or tvyordiy znak) is shaped like the letter b, but has no phonetic value on its own in modern East Slavic languages.

Ь ь : Cyrillic letter Soft sign (also known as the front yer, or myagkiy znak) is also shaped like the letter b, but has no phonetic value on its own in modern East Slavic languages.

Blimea

Blimea is a place name emerged from many Asturian words with different phonetic variants translated into Castilian word " wicker " such as bima , blima , brima , blimba or bilma .

Captain Hans Geering

(Ironically enough, despite its phonetic similarity to "Göring," Geering is actually an English surname).

Charles F. Voegelin

At first he had great difficulties hearing the phonetic distinctions of the language, but in 1931 he went to the field with Danish linguist Hans Jørgen Uldall who taught him to recognize all the phonetic contrasts.

Common Phonetic Spelling

The Common Phonetic Spelling is the phonetic spelling system devised in 2012 by the British-based Chinese lexicographer Ian Low in his Chinese to English dictionaries.

Daitch–Mokotoff Soundex

To address the large number of false positive results generated by the D–M Soundex, Stephen P. Morse and Alexander Beider created the Beider–Morse Phonetic Name Matching algorithm.

Dhu al-Fiqar

"Zulfiqar" and its phonetic variations have been popular given names, as with former Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

Dokumenta

the Rheinische Dokumenta, a phonetic writing system of West German Platt languages

E-Bay Queen

In addition, the track "Όλα Γυρίζουν" (phonetic translation: "Ola Gyrizoun") is a partial cover of "October Love Song" by Chris & Cosey - it retains the music, but has new Greek lyrics written by Marsheaux.

Edwin James Milliken

His creation of 'Arry, a bombastic Cockney, resulted in a successful series of poems which were hailed for their phonetic precision. Milliken described 'Arry as "really appalling. He is not a creature to be laughed at or with."

EFEO Chinese transcription

The Chinese transcription of the École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) was the most used phonetic transcription of Chinese in the French speaking world until the middle of the 20th century.

Eye dialect

Many cartoonists and comic book creators eschew phonetic eye dialects in favor of font changes or distinctive speech balloonsSwamp Thing, for example, has traditionally been depicted using "crusty" yellow speech balloons and dialogue heavily laced with ellipses, suggesting a gravelly voice that only speaks with great effort.

Four-Corner Method

The first large-scale project to promote spoken language unification was in 1936: Wang Li's 4 volume Mandarin Phonetic System (MPS) entry, Guoyu Cidian (Kuo-yu Tz'u-tien).

The northern Mandarin pronunciations were given in the "Guoyu Luomazi", devised by linguist Zhao Yuanren, as well as in Mandarin Phonetic System (MPS) characters with a dotted corner for tone.

French alphabet

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Hadersfild

Hadersfild (Serbian phonetic spelling of Huddersfield) is a Serbian film from 2007, directed by Ivan Živković, and the script was written by Uglješa Šajtinac.

Hawaiian name

Phonetic renderings of western names, such as Kimo (Jim) and Lāhela (Rachel), have become names in their own right.

Head-driven phrase structure grammar

A word has two features: PHON (the sound, the phonetic form) and SYNSEM (the syntactic and semantic information), both of which are split into subfeatures.

Intelligence analysis management

Soundex is one technique for indexing names such that phonetic equivalents, with variations in transliterations into the local language, can be retrieved.

John K'Eogh

He wrote Botanologia Universalis Hibernicaor, or a general Irish Herbal Cork, 1735, a herbal, or book about medicinal plants, written in Manx (not Irish but related), phonetic English, and Latin, Zoologia Medicinalis Hibernica or, a Treatise on Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Reptiles or Insects known and propagated in this Kingdom, and Vindication of the Antiquities of Ireland Dublin, 1748, in which he gives an account of his family.

Larry Laffer

He fell on the entry of Arthur Laffer, and the name caught his attention due to its phonetic resemblance to 'laugher'.

Lettre à M. Dacier

While visiting his brother Jacques-Joseph on September 14, 1822, Jean-François Champollion made a crucial breakthrough in understanding the phonetic nature of hieroglyphics, and proclaimed "Je tiens l'affaire!" ("I've got it!") and then fainted dead away.

Meet The Residents

Recorded as a break from their film project Vileness Fats, the album was home produced and recorded throughout 1973 with help from fellow musician Snakefinger and based around N. Senada's "Theory of Phonetic Organization".

Numerology

Different methods of calculation exist, including Chaldean, Pythagorean, Hebraic, Helyn Hitchcock's method, Phonetic, Japanese, Arabic and Indian.

Ó Ciardha

Carey also represents the reduced phonetic forms of Mac Fhiachra, namely Kehery, Keighry &c.

Origin of hangul

However, Gari Ledyard, Sejong Professor of Korean History Emeritus at Columbia University, notes that the character 古 gǔ also functions as a phonetic component of 蒙古 Měnggǔ "Mongol".

Pattern playback

Using this device, Alvin Liberman, Frank Cooper, and Pierre Delattre (later joined by Katherine Safford Harris, Leigh Lisker, and others) were able to discover acoustic cues for the perception of phonetic segments (consonants and vowels).

Phonetic algorithm

Search functionality will often use phonetic algorithms to find results that don't match exactly the term(s) used in the search.

Phonetic palindrome

The Beatles song "Hello, Goodbye" has a phonetic palindrome.

Polyglotta Africana

He transcribed the data using a uniform phonetic script devised by the Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius.

Polykay

The word polykay was coined by American mathematician John Tukey in 1956, from poly, "many" or "much", and kay, the phonetic spelling of the letter "k", as in k-statistic.

Reformed Phonetic Short-Hand

Reformed Phonetic Short-Hand is an obscure form of shorthand described in a book titled Marsh's Manual of Reformed Phonetic Short-Hand: Being a Complete Guide to the Best System of Phonography and Verbatim Reporting published by H.H. Bancroft & Company in 1868.

Robert Dean Frisbie

In Tahiti, Frisbie (dubbed: “Ropati,” a phonetic approximation of “Robert” en: Writer) met Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, well-known co-authors of the Mutiny on the Bounty series.

Sawndip

However there are major phonetic and lexical differences between Zhuang dialects, and the Latin-based system is based on the Wuming dialect; because of this and other reasons, there still are many Zhuang speakers that prefer to write Zhuang using sawndip.

Scott Klace

Scott began using the phonetic spelling of Klace in 1999 when he played Dremk in an episode of Star Trek: Voyager, and Fox in the film Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies.

Shōga

Kuchi shōga, a Japanese phonetic system for 'pronouncing' the sounds of drums

Stød

Because Dania, the phonetic alphabet based on the International Phonetic Alphabet designed specifically for Danish, uses the IPA character for a glottal stop to transcribe stød, the feature is frequently mistaken to be a consonant rather than a prosodic feature.

The Plane Train

The 2006 recordings were the first to use the phonetic alphabet, and were provided by the voice of Susan Bennett (who is best known today for being the voice of Siri on Apple's iPhone, as well as the female voice of Delta Air Lines' gate boarding announcements at the airport).

Theodor Siebs

His Deutsche Bühnenaussprache is still relevant, though, for practical purposes it has largely been supplanted by other works that employ the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet), which Siebs' work did not.

Where Once We Walked

The main list is followed by an additional listing organized according to a phonetic index based on the Daitch–Mokotoff Soundex system.


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