2017年4月26日 · The MW gives the pronunciation of the chemical element further down the page (\ˈled), under lead 4,and the audio matches it. If the dictionariy you are consulting doesn't specify a BrE pronunciation, you might want to check a dictionary published in...

Setting aside the question of "correct" pronunciation, we can look at actual usage and draw some conclusions. Although this is a question about pronunciation, we are lucky in that we can look at written usage to get clues about pronunciation: if someone writes "an LED" we can assume they would have used the spelling pronunciation, and if they write "a LED" we can assume they …

2011年4月8日 · The British may have started pronouncing the L under the influence of the French or Latin, whereas the Americans may have kept the 14th C pronunciation; I wouldn't be surprised if that pronunciation was still around in some British dialects in the 17th C. This actually seems more likely than that the Americans suddenly decided to drop the L for ...

I found a set of examples where I expect led instead of lead. In recent years the rise in the crime rate has lead to increased concern on the part of both the police and the general public. While these are just a few examples the number of results on a Google search is impressively high: have lead to (8,850,000 hits) has lead to (22,000,000 hits)

2023年5月23日 · As for pronunciation, in John Walker's A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language (1791) (found in Eighteenth Century Collections Online; subscription needed), he claims that to eat is pronounced with a long /i/ but that the past tense form is usually pronounced et (/ɛt/):

2014年9月29日 · Words like "read", "wind", "live" and "lead" are spelt the same, but have different meanings: Lead 1 (leed): cause (a person or animal) to go with one by holding them by the hand, a halter, a rope, etc. while moving forward.-- Dictionary.com. and. Lead 2 (led): A heavy, comparatively soft, malleable, bluish-grey metal.-- Dictionary.com

The simple answer is no. You cannot be 100% certain of a word's pronunciation simply by examining the spelling. There are guidelines which will lead you to the right conclusion most of the time, but words like read and lead have multiple pronunciations with …

2010年8月12日 · a) reconstructed Latin pronunciation b) restored pronunciation of Latin for English speakers c) traditional English pronunciation of Latin? As it is, your indicated pronunciations are an inconsistent hybrid of b and c (you indicate a voiced /gz/ rather than /ks/ for the "x", but a broad /a:/ for "a" and monophthongal /I/ for "i").

2011年9月24日 · This can lead to non-ideal results; e.g., I believe the powers that be have changed the symbols to encode the RP pronunciation of "boat" from /boʊt/ to /bəʊt/ recently. Everybody has to learn a new symbol for this vowel just because a few more RP speakers now use something closer to /əʊ/ than /oʊ/.

2018年1月1日 · The pronunciation varies with the type of Scots accent but they are all more likely to extend the final syllable than the first one and emphasise the start of the root word giving sounds like awrryyyy, asleeeep or agaaain.