please tell me how pronounce this word: Wales?
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It is pronounced the same as "whales" or "wails"
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I don't think there's such a thing.\n\nAnyway, pronouncing it is easy. Every letter is pronounced (well, theoretically, it should be).All the consonants are pronounced basically the same way as in english, with some exceptions; \n\nJ: it's like the "ch" in scottish "loch". A bit softer, maybe.\nG: before E and I, it's pronounced like a spanish "j", But;when you come across "gue","gui" groups, don't pronounce the "u". The sound it's like in "Ghent"="Guent". In that case or elsewhre, it's like the G in "gun". NEVER like in "general" in any case.\nV and B: Both are pronounced as B.\nH: It's not pronounced, except after a C. CH, like in english.\nÑ: can you say lasagna? that same GN sound.\nC: has two sounds, like K ( before A,O,U or consonant) or like TH in english "Thunder" (elsewhere).\nZ; Like TH group in "Thunder"\nQ: like K. In "QUE" and "QUI" groups, the U is not pronounced at all.\nLL and Y: BOTH like the Y in "Yellow". Exception; word "Y" meaning "And". Pronounced "ee". E.g; "You and me" = "Tu y yo", pron; Too ee jo. \nR: Either like the first R in "Repair" but harder (in the beggining of a word or before consonant) or like in "arise" (before vowel), but softer.\nRR: Like in the first R in "Repair" but harder.\n\nI think that's it, basically.\n\nVowels; unlike english, they're ALWAYS pronounced in the same manner, in every word.\n\nA: like the A of "lamb".\nE: like the E of "personal".\nI: like the I of "bit".\nO: like the O of "mob".\nU: like the OO group of "spoon", but a bit shorter.
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Every country pronounces it differently.  Just like with any other word across languages.  I'm in Germany and here we pronounce it "oirro" and in Spain you'll hear everyone pronounce it "ehoodo."
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I have a friend that lives there and pronounces it:\nWilkes-Barry
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Dunno, how do you speak it?
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To pronounce Dzien dobry: Dz sounds like a "j" or soft "g" and y like an "i".  The r's are rolled, similar to Spanish.  So it sounds a little bit like, "Gin doe-bri" (roll the r).  The "doe" in dobry is the stressed syllable, so is said "gin DOE-bri."  You can really impress your coworker and add on, Jak się masz? (pronounced "yak shio mash" (for się blend the i and o together) and means, how are you?  The most common answer is dobrze ("dobje" with the je pronounced like that in French). Good luck!
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Use the link below to have your computer say a word ...\n\nhttp://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?awkwar01.wav=awkward
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Jewelry - not Joolery\nAsterisk - not a$$-trick (and oddly enough, I had to use dollar signs to avoid asterisks!)\nCavalry - not Calvery (unless you're talking about the mountain) \n\nI have an aunt who cannot say "breakfast" - she says "breftuss". It drives me absolutely bonkers.\n\nJust a note regarding the pronunciation of the word "the" - both pronunciations are correct. Generally, the schwa sound  "thuh" is used before words beginning with consonants (the building), and the long E "thee" is used before words beginning with vowels (the outdoors). "Thee" is also used to emphasize the importance of the following word. See the Wikipedia article below.\n\nI'll also add one more word - Been. I admit, I have a tendency to get sloppy and say "bin" or "ben" although the correct pronunciation is "bee-n". (long E like seen).\n(Update - my "bin" pronunciation is acceptable! Check out the Merriam-Webster Online dictionary with the audio pronunciation. Whew - I'm not an illiterate idiot after all.)\n\nOkay, back with a couple more.\n\nMoot (moo like a cow, not mew like a kitten)\nSpecific (not pacific)\nProbably (this has 3 syllables, not 2 - it is pro bab ly not prob ly)
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Yes, it is pronounced "toom" - the "b" is silent and the "o" is long.  It's kind of along the same lines that we pronounce through "thru" and the "ough" sounds silent...
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The pronunciation should be as follows:\nPOSOL'STVO\nPO - as in "paw"\nSOL - as in "solar" only with a soft L\nSTVO - just as is with the O at the and similar to the one at the beginning.
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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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Just pronounce it the way it looks then ask the person if you got it right, they will soon tell you how to say it.
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My vote:  TSKTSKS\n\nEXPLANATION\n\nFIRST, what IS a vowel?\n\nbostonianinmo is correct - in words like "sky" the "y" IS a vowel.  The very fact that "bi-" and "by" rhyme, or that you sometimes find "rimed" instead of "rhymed" is evidence of this.\n\nThe idea that ONLY a,e,i,o and u (or even "sometimes y") are vowels in based on oversimplified definition they gave us in grade school.  In fact, a vowel is, before all else, a type of SOUND rather than a type of LETTER.  We call specific letters "vowels" because these letters are the ones TYPICALLY used to indicate the vowel sounds.\n(compare http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxword00.html)\n\nRemember that SPEECH has the primacy and that a word is, first of all a SPOKEN thing.  Writing systems were created as a means to make a record of speech.\n\nNote that the three sounds indicated by the letters "h" "w" and "y" are all weak "semi-vowels" which can easily become vowels or even disappear (as "h" at the end of a syllable).  The basic rule is that, whenever "y" or "w" BEGIN a syllable they mark consonants; at the middle of end of a syllable they mark VOWELS.  (In the case of "w", except for words from the Welsh, like "cwm" [pronounced "coom"!] w is only used for vowels in diphthongs, e.g., "How now brown cow?"     It's even easier to see that they are functioning vowels if you note that final "oy" is pronounced exactly like the "oi" in the middle of a word, and "ow" is pronounced like "ou".)\n\n(Of course, one of my favorite words in all this is "why", made up ONLY of semi-vowels.)\n\n------------------------\n\nThere ARE words without vowel SOUNDS (and in which none of the letters indicates a vowel).   They are various "interjections", such as the following:\n\nbrr(r)\ngrr(r)\ntsk\nshh(h) \npsst\nhmm\nmm-hmm\n\nThis last one might be the longest all by itself.  (It is true we might add extra letters to many such words, e.g., h's to "shh" or r's to "brr".  But that would be cheating. And where would you stop?!)\n\nI think the longest bona fide word of this sort is "tsktsks" used as a verb, the equivalent of "utters a tsktsk" or "expresses disapproval", e.g., "he tsktsks her suggestions".
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go to http://dictionary.com/ and they have a pronunciation key where you can listen to the word spoken correctly.
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Im sure the answer is 'tarrthalai' and there's a fada over the second 'a' and the last letter 'i'. It's pronounced something like 'TAR-hawl-ee'\n\nHope this helps\n\nHave you decided what name to take yet, check out this website, it could give you some idea's www.rootsweb.com/~fianna/surname\nthe last bit on that web address is surname\n\nAh thanks croga xx
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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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Use the link below to see the definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, and click on the little speaker icon to be able to hear it pronounced.  It sounds a little like "HAY-puh-nee."\n\nNeed the answer? Ask your friendly neighborhood librarian!