phonetics

Example Sentences

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The education is arduous, with You’s acolytes committing to memory songs of fishing, hunting and ancient tribal conquests through phonetics alone.

From Reuters

But the name of the supposed martyrs’ chat group was written in Mandarin phonetics, rather than in Cantonese, the dialect spoken in Hong Kong.

From Los Angeles Times

In a kindergarten phonetics class, for instance, five placards naming each of the five senses were hung from the ceiling above five numbered tables set up around the room.

From Washington Post

After initially struggling with Portuguese phonetics she had also fallen in love with a language that showed her “a culture which is different from Chinese culture … more optimistic”.

From The Guardian

The fantasy has been retold a thousand times, most famously by George Bernard Shaw, whose version featured a phonetics professor who remakes a Cockney flower girl into an Edwardian lady.

From The New Yorker