spelling pronunciation

plural spelling pronunciations

1. A pronunciation that has been modified from its traditional form in order to reflect (one or another interpretation of) the spelling of the word in question.

   The audio contained some spelling pronunciations, such as when "sieve" was mistakenly portrayed as rhyming with "leave".

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   Jespersen ([1909] 1954) says that spelling pronunciation has affected the pronunciation of all the following words: second (1:25); nephew (1:42); theater, apothecary, catholic, throne (1:45); humble, host, inherit, heretic, heresy, homely, hypocrite, hypocrisy, hospital, heritage, heritor, humor, hermit, hotel (1:61–62); novel (1:91), periwig (1:105); registrar (1:198); assoil, precise (1:204); wassail (1:268); fault, vault, assault, Walter, altar, fealty, moult, cauldron, baldric, herald, ribald, emerald, soldier, falcon, realm (1:295–97).

   1988, D. W. Cummings, American English Spelling: An Informal Description, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 23