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2293:(IPA). The IPA has significant advantages over this respelling system, as it can be used to accurately represent pronunciations from any language in the world, and (being an international standard) is often more familiar to European/Commonwealth and non-native speakers of English. On the other hand, the IPA (being designed to represent sounds from any language in the world) is not as intuitive for those chiefly familiar with English orthography, for whom this respelling system is likely to be easier for English words and names. So, while the IPA is the required form of representing pronunciation, respelling remains optional. It should not be used for representing non-English words or an approximation thereof. 27: 149:
Both the IPA and respelling for English on Knowledge are designed to record all distinctive sounds found in major varieties of English. That is, we record differences found in some varieties but not in others, such as those between "father" and "farther", "wine" and "whine", and "cot" and "caught".
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Sometimes another means of indicating a pronunciation is more desirable than this respelling system, such as when a name is intended to be a homonym of an existing English word or phrase, or in case of an
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This does not mean these differences are, or must be, always distinguished; if you speak a dialect that does not distinguish "father" and "farther", for example, simply ignore the difference between
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may be best avoided altogether; however, sometimes the benefit of respelling may outweigh the disadvantage, especially for longer words, so exercise discretion.
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In words where primary stress precedes secondary stress, however, the secondary stress should not be differentiated from unstressed syllables.
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Respelling should also be avoided when a respelled syllable would be the same as an existing word that is pronounced differently. "Maui"
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could prove problematic as there are a variety of monosyllabic words spelled with "ow" and pronounced with
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template. In such cases, an IPA notation is usually nevertheless needed, but not necessarily so; see
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or a name composed of numbers or symbols. When citing a homonym, it should not be enclosed in the
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The following pronunciation respelling key is used in some Knowledge articles to
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may result in a different pronunciation than intended (compare "whatever"
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For a more thorough discussion of the sounds and dialectal variation, see
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Knowledge:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Other transcription systems
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takes place right after a consonant within the same syllable. When
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when otherwise it may be misinterpreted as another sound such as
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when otherwise it may be misinterpreted as another sound such as
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is placed between consonants within the same syllable, place an
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begins a syllable (e.g. "youth", "Europe", "value"), use
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For example, "motorcycle" (transcribed with the stress
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may result in a different pronunciation than intended.
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for examples and instructions on using the template.
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