spelling pronunciation

English

Etymology

From spelling +‎ pronunciation.

Noun

spelling pronunciation (plural spelling pronunciations)

1. A pronunciation that has been modified from its traditional form in order to reflect (one or another interpretation of) the spelling of the word in question.

   The audio contained some spelling pronunciations, such as when "sieve" was mistakenly portrayed as rhyming with "leave".

   • 1988, D. W. Cummings, American English Spelling: An Informal Description, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 23:

     Jespersen ([1909] 1954) says that spelling pronunciation has affected the pronunciation of all the following words: second (1:25); nephew (1:42); theater, apothecary, catholic, throne (1:45); humble, host, inherit, heretic, heresy, homely, hypocrite, hypocrisy, hospital, heritage, heritor, humor, hermit, hotel (1:61–62); novel (1:91), periwig (1:105); registrar (1:198); assoil, precise (1:204); wassail (1:268); fault, vault, assault, Walter, altar, fealty, moult, cauldron, baldric, herald, ribald, emerald, soldier, falcon, realm (1:295–97).

Related terms

• phonemic spelling (= phonemic orthography)
• phonetic spelling (= phonetic orthography)
• pronunciation respelling
• pronunciation spelling

Translations

spelling pronunciation

• Danish: skriftsprogsudtale c
• Dutch: spellinguitspraak m or f
• German: buchstabengetreue Aussprache f, Buchstabenaussprache f, Schriftaussprache f
• Hungarian: írás sugallta ejtés, írás/írásmód/írott alak szerinti ejtés/ejtésmód/kiejtés
• Low German:

  German Low German: Utspraak na de Schrievwies f, Utsprook no de Schrievwies f

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skriftspråksuttale m

  Nynorsk: skriftspråksuttale m or f

• Portuguese: pronúncia ortográfica f
• Spanish: pronunciación ortográfica f
• Swedish: skriftspråksuttal n

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