[General] Some IPA of names

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Hi teachers.

I need your help with these names. Please tell me how to pronounce them by showing me the IPA. I can't find any of them in some of my favorite dictionaries. I can't use Forvo, even I can I don't think I can type the them out. Because all of them are names, I ask these questions in one thread.

1)Brierley
2)Simone (Is this the same pronunciation of Simon?)
3)Hirohito (This is an Japanese name, but I think we all have English pronunciation for it.)
4)Gabrielle Giffords
5)Jon Kyl
 

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John Wells (Longman Pronunciation Dictionary) gives these IPA transcriptions for BrE:


1)Brierley - /ˈ ˈbraɪ͜ ə li/
2)Simone - /sɪ ˈ məʋn/ or /sə ˈ məʋn/
(Is this the same as the pronunciation of Simon?) No. That's /ˈ saɪ mən/
3)Hirohito - /hɪr əʋ hiːt əʋ/
4)Gabrielle Giffords - ˌ/gæb ri ˈel gɪf əds/
5)Jon Kylˈ - /d͡ʒɒn kaɨl/

I wonder if the "ds" in Giffords is pronounced as "dz", as in "hands"?
 

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Yes. Sorry.

I am regrettably prone to typos at the best of times, and it takes me a long time to type out IPA and double-check my transcriptions.

Please don't say that, Piscean. You've helped a lot. No need to apologize.
 

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Hi teachers.

I wonder if you can tell me the IPA of these two words.

1)Schalke hit three second-half goals to deal….(TheSun.com)
2)The two companies' success is based on…(Cambridge.org)
 

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Hi teachers.

I have a new question. This sentence is from dictionary.reference.com.

The swamis are saying the stock market is due for a drop. (Source: swami)

Does this word "swami", which is plural in the sentence, sound like "swah-mees"?
 

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This means both "mees" and "meez" are okay. Am I right?

The final sound is a /z/. As Anglophones, we see a final s that follows a vowel as representing that sound.
 

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Hi.

This sentence is from dictionary.reference.com

Bill is anxious to get in the boss's good books.

Does this word pronounce as "bos" or "bos (pause) s"?
 

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Bill is anxious to get in the boss's good books.

[STRIKE]Does[/STRIKE] Is this word pronounced [STRIKE]as[/STRIKE] "bos" or "bos (pause) s"?
Pronounce it the same as bosses. Use a schwa, not a pause, between the syllables.
 

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Hi.

This sentence is from cambridge.org.

Did you come to any conclusions at the meeting this morning?

Is this word pronounced as "...z" or "....s"?
 

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Hi.

This sentence is from cambridge.org.

Did you come to any conclusions at the meeting this morning?

Is this word pronounced as "...z" or "....s"?

/z/, like all plurals ending in an s that immediately follows a voiced consonant.
 

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Hi teachers.

I read this sentence from dictionary.com.

He introduced us to his betrothed. (source: betrothed)

Is "introduced" pronounced as "...st" or "sd" in the end of its sound?
 

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He introduced us to his betrothed. (source: betrothed)

Is "introduced" pronounced as "...st" or "sd" in the end of its sound?

/st/. Pronounce a final d like /t/ when it follows a voiceless consonant sound. "Bruised" ends in /d/ because the d follows a voiced consonant sound, /z/.
 

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/st/. Pronounce a final d like /t/ when it follows a voiceless consonant sound. "Bruised" ends in /d/ because the d follows a voiced consonant sound, /z/.

It's more likely to be pronounced as /sd/.

Although the rule you've stated is accurate when applied to isolated words, it doesn't necessarily apply in connected speech because the sound is determined also by what follows.

In this case, since the following sound is a vowel, a voiced consonant (/d/) is produced.
 

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Hi teachers.

Would you please show me the IPA of this word "tortoises"? Should it be "si:s" or "si:z"?
 

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"si:z", or "s-schwa-z". The plural of any word ending in an /s/ sound follows the same rule.
 

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It doesn't use a long vowel in standard pronunciation, but a short one.

So it's:[FONT=&quot] /sɪz/[/FONT]
 

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"si:z", or "s-schwa-z".

So the symbol /i:/ represents a sustained (long) vowel, as in sheep, not a schwa. (The two dots are meant to show that the vowel can be sustained.)

The schwa, represented by /ə/, is the short unstressed 'uh' sound, as in station and potato.
 
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