Sentence examples for whose pronunciation from inspiring English sources

All the languages have the three vowels usually written a, i, and u, whose pronunciation is determined by the consonants that follow or precede them.

Moreover, as Mari Jones of Cambridge University points out, differences in regional pronunciation mean that introducing a "phonetic" spelling of English would benefit only people from the region whose pronunciation was chosen as the accepted norm.

This newspaper's style calls for the punctilious (and closest to the original) form: O.K. My own strong preference is the form that looks most simply like a word, whose pronunciation is clear, and which doesn't call for an apostrophe in extensions like "okayed" and "okays": Okay.

Employees of the Whiskeytown National Recreation Area try to keep visitors in check, but their biggest worry lately has not been marijuana users but a newcomer with a handle almost as funny as Whiskeytown itself: the quagga mussel, whose pronunciation — qua-gah— makes it sound as if it's from Fenway Park.

I recently had to explain exactly how a new piece of software worked to a student with an apparently fair ability to understand English but whose pronunciation was painfully difficult to follow.

The results highlight the fact that certain of these foodstuffs (sparkling water, cranberry juice, and Maltesers – chocolate-covered malt honeycomb) were better associated with angular shapes and high-pitched meaningless words, such as 'kiki' and 'takete', whose pronunciation requires sharp inflection of the mouth.

The chairman was George Bernard Shaw (whose own pronunciation happened to be Irish but who was, after all, the author of "Pygmalion").

Best of all is the director of the Chauvet project, a Frenchman who looks and smiles like Einstein, and whose English pronunciation of the phrase "woolly rhino" will keep me cheered into the autumn of my days.

Its coverage features the veteran Channel 4 commentating team of Phil Liggett (whose French pronunciation remains as awful as ever) and Paul Sherwen (whose reading of the race's tactical twists and turns is unfailingly informative).

The Texas senator had long made the pledge to move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem on his first day in office a staple of his stump speech and Cruz, whose Hebrew pronunciation was impeccable by the standards of an evangelical Cuban American from Texas, was perfectly in tune with the hawkish crowd.

"Oz Clarke's Wine Guide," $29.95 at www.bn.com, includes 54 wine-tasting videos, 1,200 food and wine matches, 30,000 vintage recommendations, 3,000 encyclopedic entries, maps, vineyard visits and Mr. Clarke himself, an Oxford-educated British critic whose seductive pronunciation of tongue-twisting varietals is music to the ears.