Лексичні та синтактико-стилістичні зміни в сучасній англійській мові: вплив комп’ютерних технологій

3. Fascination with puns and wordplay.

2.3. Pronunciation Features

Pronunciation keys provided in the Glossary of Terms are not dictionary words pronounced as in standard. Slashes bracket phonetic pronunciations, which are to be interpreted using the following conventions:

1. Syllables are hyphen-separated, except that an accent or back-accent follows accented syllable (the back-accent marks a secondary accent in some words of four or more syllables). If no accent is given, the word is pronounced with equal accentuation on all syllables (this is common for abbreviations).

1.Consonants are pronounced as in standard English:

•`g' is always hard (as in "got" rather than "giant");

•terminal `r’ (as in «hard» or «more») may be pronounced or not depending on the local dialect

•`j' is the sound that occurs twice in "judge";

•`s' is always as in "pass", never a z sound;

•the diagraph `ch' is soft (as in "church" rather than "chemist");

•the digraph `kh' is the guttural of "loch" or "l'chaim";

•the digraph 'gh' is the aspirated g+h of "bughouse" or "ragheap" (this case is rare in English).

2.Uppercase letters are pronounced as their English letter names; E.g.: /H-L-L/ is equivalent to /aych el el/.

/Z/ may be pronounced /zee/ or /zed/ depending on the local dialect.

4. Vowels are represented as follows:

/a/

back, that

/ah/

father, palm

/ar/ or /a:/

far, mark

/aw/

flaw, caught

/ay/

bake, rain