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Originally Posted by Peter It's actually impossible to talk fully phonetically by the way, since the (arguably) 24 letters of the alphabet with different pronounciations don't cover the sounds we make, like "heer" in the last post for example, there is no letter for the "ee" sound, saying "e" twice isn't the same. |
It may be impossible to talk phonetically using only the 2
6conventional letters of the english language.
Fortunately, scholars realised this long ago and created a 'phonetic' alphabet comprised of symbols, each one representing a different sound created by certain letter combinations.
If you look in a dictionary, each word will have brackets after it with weird symbols strung together by hyphes. This is the phonetic pronunciation of the word. Unfortunately I don't think Microsoft word has phonetic symbols in it.
