User:B jonas

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You might get a tad bit more info about me on my en.Wikipedia user page.

I've contributed a few Hungarian translations and Hungarian words here.

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User:B jonas/French pronunciation

Some useful links

• Category:Translations to be checked (Hungarian)
• Special:PrefixIndex
• Wiktionary:Frequency_lists/PG/2005/10/1-10000 (English)

B jonas 13:57, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Some notes on English usage

Do not confuse these pairs of English words

draught or draft

/drɑ:ft/ current of air

drought

/draʊt/ period of dryness

appeal

attract; urge

appal or appall

frighten or horrify

coach

/kəʊtʃ/ a bus, train wagon, or closed horse carriage; or a sports trainer

couch

/kaʊtʃ/ sofa

stenography

shorthand, fast form of handwriting

steganography

hiding messages

deprecate

/ˈdɛprɪkeɪt/ talk disapprovingly; also used instead of depreciate sometimes

depreciate

/dɪˈpriːʃɪeɪt/ become less valuable

dilate

/daɪˈleɪt, dɪˈleɪt/ expand or widen (esp. a gap)

dilute

/daɪˈluːt, dɪˈluːt/ make (a solution) less dense

delate

/dɪˈleɪt/ report a person for their rule breaking

delayed

/dɪˈleɪd/ past of delay, push to later time

delete

/dɪˈliːt/ remove

delight

/dɪˈlaɪt/ happyness

delude

/dɪˈluːd/ convince about falsehoods

continuous

/kənˈtɪnjʊəs/ without interruption

contiguous

/kənˈtɪgjʊəs/ sharing a border, or without gaps

discrete

made of separate parts, not continuous

discreet

respecting privacy

specter or spectre

ghost

scepter or sceptre

symbolic staff that rulers hold

Pairs of apparently related English words with surpisingly different pronunciation

• sign /saɪn/ – signal /ˈsɪgnəl/
• finite /ˈfaɪnaɪt/ – infinite /ˈɪnfɪnɪt/
• cycle /ˈsaɪkəl/ – bicycle /ˈbaɪsɪkəl/
• number /'nʌmbər/ – numerous /ˈnjuːmərəs/, numeral /ˈnjuːmərəl/, numeric /njuːˈmɛrɪk/ etc
• design /dɪˈzaɪn/ – designate /ˈdɛzɪgneɪt/

Some words of which I need to learn the spelling

(There are too many words of which I need to learn the pronunciation that I don't even bother to start to list them.)

• weird (as a workaround, learn to just use curious or strange in most cases)
• hygiene, etymology, mysterious, Odyssey, myopia, hibernate
• carbohydrate
• appearance, maintenance, existence
• appropriate, privilege, obsolete
• heard
• homogeneous, jealous
• autumn

Links on particular points of English usage

• Usage of trace, track, trail.

Silent initial consonants

If a word starts with any of the following combination of consonants, the first consonant is almost always silent in English.

wr

write, wrong, wrist, wrap, wreck, wrest, wrestle, wriggle, wrinkle, wrath, wraith, wreath, wrangle, wren, wright, wrought, wring, writ, writhe, wry.

kn

know, knife, knock, knee, knight, knob, knot, knit, knack, knout, knuckle, knave.

ps

psychology (and lots of related words), psalm, pseudo, psychic, psionics.

pt

pterodactyl.

gn

gnaw, gnash, gnome, gnu, gnat.

pn

pneumatic.

mn

mnemonic.

chth

chthonic.

phth

phthisis

bd

bdellium.

Pronounciation of -ough in English

List of such words: although borough bough breakthrough cough dough enough furlough hough Marlborough McCullough rough Scarborough slough sough sourdough thorough though through tough trough. – b_jonas 11:42, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

All from wiktionary as of 2008-06-13: -borough alpine-chough although borough bough chough cough dough eavestrough enough furlough Hiccough hiccough Hillsborough hough Loughborough lough Marlborough Middlesbrough Myerscough Peterborough Plough plough Rough rough Scarborough Slough slough snowplough sough sourdough thirdborough Thorough thorough though tough trough turlough Conrad.Irwin 11:39, 7 September 2008 (UTC) Sorted list inplace for easier use of paper dict. – b_jonas 11:45, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Pron source below: Paul Procter (editor), Dictionary of Contemporary English, A Langenscheidt-Longman Dictionary. Longman Group Ltd., 1985, 7th printing.

• /-oʊ/
  • although /ɔːlˈðəʊ/
  • dough /dəʊ/
  • furlough (BrE) /ˈfɜːləʊ/, (AmE) /ˈfɜrləʊ/
  • sourdough (BrE) /ˈsaʊədəʊ/ or (AE) /ˈsaʊərdəʊ/
  • though /ðəʊ/

• /-oʊ/ or /-ə/
  • borough (BrE) /ˈbʌrə/, (AmE) /ˈbʌrəʊ/
  • thorough (BrE) /ˈθʌrə/ or (BrE or AmE) /ˈθʌrəʊ/

• /-aʊ/
  • bough /baʊ/
  • plough /plaʊ/, also (US) plow
  • slough¹ (BrE or AmE) /slaʊ/ or (AmE) /sluː/ marshy area
  • snowplough /ˈsnəʊplaʊ/

• /-uː/
  • breakthrough /ˈbreɪkθruː/
  • through /θruː/

• /-ʌf/
  • chough /tʃʌf/
  • enough /ɪˈnʌf/
  • rough /rʌf/
  • slough² /slʌf/ skin thrown off from a reptile
  • sough /sʌf/ or /saʊ/
  • tough /tʌf/

• /-ɒf/
  • cough (BrE) /kɒf/, (AmE) /kɔf/
  • trough (BrE) /trɒf/ or (AmE) /trɔf/

• /-ʌp/
  • hiccough /ˈhɪkʌp/ or /ˈhɪkəp/, more commonly hiccup, also hickup

• /-ɒk/
  • hough /hɒk/
  • lough /lɒk/ or /lɒx/

• /-əʊx/
  • turlough /ˈtʊələʊx/

English words ending in é

These are usually confusing when written with "e" instead of "é".

• cliché, clichéd, melee (close combat), resumé, epee, maté, saké, rothé, café, exposé, animé

– b_jonas

An old project of mine on Wiktionary

My current project (stalled for a long time now) here is to add most two-letter Hungarian words to wiktionary. I exclude some interjections, word parts that are not a complete word, interjections and other meaningless words, and words I forget. I've done the words starting with a–í, so I now have to continue from j. About half of the words already had a suitable entry which makes the project much easier.