pronunciation
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pronunciation /prənʌnsɪˈeɪʃ(ə)n/
▶noun the way in which a word is pronounced.
usage: The word pronunciation is often pronounced, by analogy with pronounce, as if the second syllable rhymed with bounce. This is not correct in standard English: the second syllable should rhyme with dunce. The correct spelling is pronunciation, not pronounciation.
'pronunciation' also found in these Oxford entries:
anaptyxis
- aural
- burr
- Celtic
- clipped
- comparable
- contribute
- controversy
- decade
- diacritic
- elocution
- Estuary English
- euphony
- eye rhyme
- good
- harass
- have
- helluva
- homonym
- homophone
- homophonous
- hotel
- hypercorrection
- integral
- intrusive
- lallation
- m'
- nimble
- o'
- orthoepy
- plosion
- received pronunciation
- register
- research
- respell
- RP
- shibboleth
- sound shift
- syllable
- trill
- twang
- upsilon
- use
- voice
