pronounceable
IPA: prʌnˈaʊnsʌbʌɫ
adjective
- Capable of being distinctly pronounced in speech; enunciable.
- Capable of being expressed; sayable.
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Examples of "pronounceable" in Sentences
- Amun's name pronounceable only by the Egyptian Priests, 621-l.
- AMUN, among the Egyptians, was a name pronounceable by none save the
- “Al-Kajari” is the corruption, which denotes its foreign origin, and renders its name pronounceable to Arabs.
- Popping into the oven, I perused the ingredients list which again was mercifully short and pronounceable, but odd.
- I was the guest at the Science Fiction Society of Northern New Jersey, famous for having the least-pronounceable acronym in skiffydom.
- It's telling that Cameron describes the resulting tongue as something that is "pronounceable" yet sounds "exotic and not specific to human languages."
- Mr. Alter conducted a similar study in 2006 showing that companies with pronounceable ticker symbols—such as RAD for Rite Aid Corp.—performed better in the stock market following an initial public offering.
- In an earlier issue of VERBATIM writers have commented on what have come to be called "bacronyms," names of companies, products, charities, and other institutions that have been chosen solely because their acronyms yield words that are pronounceable, meaningful, or both.
- The reason that I bothered with the argument of vowelless [mz] being pronounceable is simply that I do, in fluent speech, usually produce the vowelless [mz], and therefore wanted to explain the more objectionable position, figuring the vowelled pronunciation of Ms. could defend itself.
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