pronounciation
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɹəˌnaʊn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/
Audio (US): (file)
Noun
pronounciation
- Misspelling of pronunciation.
- Obsolete form of pronunciation.
- 1530, Johan Palſgrave [i.e., John Palsgrave], Lesclarcissement de la Langue Francoyse: […], Geneva: Slatkine Reprints, published 1972, unnumbered page:
- And nowe as touchying the ſeconde poynte whiche is to be bꝛefe and ſodayne without any maner of harſheneſſe in theyꝛ ꝓnoũciation / what conſonantes ſo euer they wꝛite in any woꝛde foꝛ the kepying of trewe oꝛthographie […]
References
- Jeremy Butterfield, editor (2015), Fowler's Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage, fourth edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 660, column 1: “*pronounciation. An all-too-common misspelling and mispronunciation of pronunciation.”
- “pronunciation, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2023.