I have terrible pronunciation. Can you direct me to dictionary-type sites that teach how to pronounce words using high-quality audio files?
Merriam-Webster has the basics and is easy to use, but I am also looking for resources that cover more specialized vocabularies such as cooking terms, medical terms, technology terms, the names of important cultural figures, place names, and product names. Obscurity/difficulty level: stuff like sambal oelek, Yulia Tymoshenko, Mies van der Rohe, SUSE, Schenectady, Elidel, Saucony.
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posted by Susan PG
on May 5, 2012 -
12 answers
How do you pronounce Basquiat? Is it bah-ski-ow? Bah-ski-aht? Bah-squee-yat? Bass-ski-yacht?
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posted by pwally
on Mar 8, 2011 -
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I've been trying to re-discover two websites that I've found before but have now utterly lost. One was a photo gallery of people in drug-induced altered states, and the other was a repository of name pronunciations curated by librarians.
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posted by Admiral Haddock
on Aug 24, 2010 -
10 answers
In simplest possible terms, how do I pronounce the Khmer term 'Tonle Sap'
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posted by Fuka
on Apr 29, 2008 -
5 answers
Iraqi first names Zainab, Aysha and Nour: how should I pronounce them? (For each name: how do the vowels sound [in comparison with an English word], how many syllables does the name have, and which syllable is accented?)
posted by allterrainbrain
on Feb 7, 2008 -
8 answers
How do you say the commonly used phrase "raison d’etre"? Anybody have a sound file I could listen to?
posted by survivorman
on Nov 26, 2007 -
33 answers
Golczynski - I will be reading this name during a service of remembrance tomorrow for fallen soldiers and want to make certain I get it right. Thanks for the help.
posted by stuboo
on Nov 10, 2007 -
14 answers
