The word "phonetic" is not spelled phonetically.
The word "phonetic" is not spelled phonetically.
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I don't even know what "spelled phonetically" is supposed to mean in English. As far as I'm concerned that language is just a jumble of vowels that all sound the same but generate long arguments about how to pronounce things "correctly".
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This is why the IPA is useful.
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Kind of. The IPA doesn't show weak forms so non-native speakers can be confused by them if they only ever learned the dictionary way of pronouncing a word.
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Ah that's interesting, I didn't know that.
Still, the IPA is really helpful when trying to discuss pronunciation with someone who has a very different accent to ourselves.
As a New Zealander I find some US phonetic spellings baffling.
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IPA is also useful for cleaning and drinking.
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Phonetically means the way it sounds which would be “fonetik”
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So pronounced phone-tick?
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Three syllables, so it would be fo-ne-tik.
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This is not correct. English is simply not phonetic and therefore it's impossible to spell any English word phonetically.
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funneddic (US)
funnettic (UK)-
That's transposing it how we sound to them, though!
If the above were pronounced in a baseline kiwi accent the U would just get deeper. The vowel shift goes the other way if I'm to recreate their pronunciation using my own accent:
Fehr ned ik (US)
Foe net eck (UK)
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