LoginBorrowed Nouns & Pronunciation
What do you know about 'borrowed nouns'? Are you familiar with how we can pronounce them? Well, I'm about to teach you them. Let's begin.
In this lesson, we are going to look at the pronunciation of borrowed nouns and then proper nouns.
The pronunciation of proper nouns needs to be checked in the dictionary, and the same goes with people's names that should be demanded the addressee to spell them out. Note that, digraphs might appear in proper nouns but their pronunciation is divided into two categories:
1. Borrowed Nouns & Borrowed Pronunciation
This category shows that some common words, especially people's names that are borrowed from other languages, maintain the original orthography and phonology at the same time.
pi
'pizza' is pronounced as its Italian version.
insou
'cian' as a digraph must be pronounced /ʃ.ən/,
2. Borrowed Nouns & English Pronunciation
This category indicates some borrowed nouns are Anglicized in terms of phonology based on their pronunciation. In other words, such nouns had first the pronunciation form and then were given a standard written form, like
Note that if any digraph appears in such words, their phonological rules do not apply.
'th' is a digraph but the pronunciation rules of the digraph 'th' does not apply.
Es
Ba
'lk' is a digraph but it is
Sa
'lm' is a digraph but it is
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