How do you pronounce the word calamari? My yankee friend says that the that the "i" at the end is silent?
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Calamari is the italian word for squid. The 'i' is never silent; after all when was the last time you ate spaghett......??
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Personally I would ignore him and keep walking.  Not sure what you are saying.  I speak a little Spanish and maybe you heard him wrong.  Kind of sounds like Sabor.  Sabor in Spanish means taste.  So if he said Saborla?????  Maybe taste her?????  or tasty???Now I could be completely off here any Spanish speakers out there?
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Adding the letter Y after the B would no longer make it a silent B. \nPhonetically (DUM-BEE) \nStupid isn't it ?
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Sammon.\n\nGo here for an audio clip of the correct pronunciation:\n\nhttp://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/salmon
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It's not a word that people usually say, unless actually discussing punctuation.\nIf you were reading the above sentence out loud, you would drop the intonation at the end of "say", take a short pause, then resume talking.\nIf you were reading the above sentence out loud, you would drop and then raise the intonation for the word preceding the comma, take a short pause, and then move on to the next comma. etc.\nWhen giving a speech, it is important to be aware of tonality as well as rhythm. And don't rush. It's a lot like singing.
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When I lived in America a few years ago, I not only had to say "sidewalk" and "elevator", I had to pronounced 'butter' like "Berrrrrrr", or else everyone in the coffee-shop would fall about saying "But-tah? Did you say But-tah?"\nSame for Tomayto!\nWhen in Rome! I came home after two years with an American accent!
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"Mahn-WEE" is the correct pronounciation. I'm afraid I don't know of a website, though.
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So, phonetically it's HID-uh-kel, HID-ih-kel.  I have only found one site so far where you can hear it spoken but it is in a really long electronically voiced sentence.  It's toword the end of the wav.  It takes a while to open.
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Listen to the final sound in the singular form of the word.  If the last sound vibrates (put your hand against your throat to feel this!)the sound of the plural will also vibrate, hence it will sound like a /z/.\nIf the last sound does not vibrate, the plural will not vibrate and it will sound like an /s/.
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all previous are correct\nbut spaniards say "pah-\n-thi(as in thing)\n-n\n-thi\n-ah
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I think it can be pronounced a number of ways. \n  Nye- yen, Noo-yen, When, and Nwen are the ones I've heard.
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Yes its true. They say it without the 'r' but it sounds like they said it with the 'r'. Its more common with Yorkshiremen and Australians, I think.
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You're just acting like your name, aren't you?\n\nOf course this rule only relates to the final silent e changing the initial vowel sound.  There are numerous examples where the initial vowel sound is short an unaffected by the final vowel sound:\nDELI\nDIVA\nFETA\nJAVA\nKILO\nLIMO\nMAGI\nMENU\nMESA\nMINI\nPAPA\netc.
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There a historical reasons for the spelling.  For example, "hour" is spelled with an "h" because it comes from French "heure" and was never pronounced in English.  But other silent letters aren't really silent at all.  For example, take "race" and "rack".  Both could be spelled "rac", but then you would not know whether the "c" was pronounced like the "c" in "cat" or the "c" in "city".  The "e" in "race" says "pronounce the 'c' like an 's'", while the "k" in "rack" says "pronounce the 'c' like a 'k'" (the "k" is the silent letter in "rack").  So don't disparage the "silent letters".  They aren't really "silent" at all, but give us important information about how to pronounce the other letters in the word.
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It's pronounced [/ˌwɪkiˈpiːdi.ə/] or [/ˌwiki-/] (IPA format).\n\nI pronounce wiki to rhyme with quicky, but I've heard others say "wicker-pedia", where the wicker part which sort of rhymes with snicker.\n\nWiktionary has an audio file showing the UK and US ways of pronouncing it. You can listen to them at http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wikipedia
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I'm going to say how it is pronounced in brazilian portuguese, since he is brazilian. In european portuguese it would be very different.\n\nRO - kind of like the HO in "home", but the "h" has to be a little stronger, like if you were speaking english with french accent :o)\n\nNAL - exactly like NOW\n\nDI - exactly like GEE, the expression of surprise we often hear in the movies :o)\n\nNHO - "nh" has the same sound as the spanish ñ (like in Espanã), and the "o" is pronounced almost like a "u"\n\nSo it would be something really close to HO-NOW-GEE-ÑU. The stress is in the "DI" ("GEE").
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When "the" is in front of a vowel letter you have to pronounce it as "thee". Otherwise it's just "the".\neg:\n\nthe car\nthe (pronounced as thee) apple