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pronunciation
Category: Miscellaneous Asked by: muhung-ga List Price: $2.00 |
Posted:
20 Aug 2004 12:48 PDT
Expires: 19 Sep 2004 12:48 PDT Question ID: 390531 |
Is there any rule to pronounce "proper noun" exactly, such as piroctone olamine, Genuporoxin, ..etc? or any software can help me to solve this problem?It is very difficult for me to speak new words, especially those I can not find out in dictionary. |
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Re: pronunciation
From: ipfan-ga on 20 Aug 2004 13:07 PDT |
This is a great question! This is a huge pet peeve of mine (as a native English speaker): not knowing how to pronounce new words I see in print or on the Internet. Pharmaceuticals are an excellent example. I have found that all I can do is watch for commercials and new reports and see if perhaps there is a consensus about how the word is pronounced. Sometimes a web site will have a video (that is in the nature of a press release or a commercial) that features "official" pronunciation. Here's an example--there's a new drug out called Wellbutrin. I saw the name in print first and in my mind pronounced it "well-BU-trin." But when I saw the ads, they pronounce it as "WELL-butrin." It's a subtle difference, but it bothered me that the correct pronunciation was not intuitively obvious just based on the rules for standard English. I hope someone posts a good answer to this. |
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Re: pronunciation
From: pinkfreud-ga on 20 Aug 2004 13:12 PDT |
This is a good place to look up the names of drugs. However, it gives pronunication guidelines only for generic names, not trade names: http://www.umm.edu/altmed/ConsLookups/Drugs.html |
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Re: pronunciation
From: claudietta-ga on 21 Aug 2004 14:53 PDT |
As you may or may not know, English (especially of the American variety) is very idiomatic both in pronunciation and usage, therefore, even if there do exist general guidelines for pronunciation, the right pronunciation is that which is dominant, i.e. that which the majority of the population adopts. American pronunciation varies by region, and one can only know if one is correct in pronouciation by absorbing it in everyday life. If I were you, I would listen to the news from Chicago or Los Angeles, which tends to be within the norm. I would specifically exclude Texas, New York, New Jersey, New Orleans, the South in general, and teens, for guidance. I hope this helps, Claudietta |
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