Who knew there could so many, and such revelatory, ways of pronouncing the word "gaze"?
Some of the new leader's supporters let the side down on social media, prompting one Blairite to point out that there were two ways of pronouncing "kinder politics".
Webster's Third New International went to surprising lengths in its variants; perhaps its record is in giving 132 different ways of pronouncing a fortiori.
The chief contributor was William Labov, the pioneer of social dialectology in the U.S. The basic task is to determine the correlation between a group of linguistic variables such as the different ways of pronouncing a certain vowel and extralinguistic variables, such as education, social status, age, and race.
For example, there are 10 ways to spell the /e/ sound (get, many, haemorrhage, said, says, bread, leisure, leopard, friend, bury); and nine ways of pronouncing as a single-letter grapheme (cat, about, father, bacon, what, water, many, village, naive).
Andriantsimitoviaminiandriana also created three formal ways of pronouncing a sacred and binding oath; these included the mively rano (striking the surface of a body of water with a stick), the milefon'omby (striking a calf with a spear) and the misotro vokaka (drinking water mixed with ashes taken from a king's tomb).
She has a beautiful way of pronouncing words.
Substitute Teacher: While taking attendance, a substitute teacher from the inner city imposes his own way of pronouncing students' names.
He became Mott over the course of many years of visiting and eventually living in Grenada, where residents had a distinctive way of pronouncing his nickname, Moth.
He had told Gogol that Ganguli was a legacy of the British, an anglicized way of pronouncing his real surname, Gangopadhyay.
Ms. Palin, a woman who clearly understands the power of words, had a way of pronouncing media — "MEE-de-ah" — that made it sound like something legless and slithering.
