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1239 "Where symbols appear in pairs, the first corresponds to American English, General American accent; the second corresponds to British English, Received Pronunciation.\n" +
1246 " 6. The diphthongs /e?/ and /o?/ are monophthongal for many General American speakers, as /e?/ and /o?/.\n" +
1248 " 8. Vowel length plays a phonetic role in the majority of English dialects, and is said to be phonemic in a few dialects, such as Australian English and New Zealand English. In certain dialects of the modern English language, for instance General American, there is allophonic vowel length: vowel phonemes are realized as long vowel allophones before voiced consonant phonemes in the coda of a syllable. Before the Great Vowel Shift, vowel length was phonemically contrastive.\n" +
1275 " 4. The sounds /?/, /?/, and /?/ are labialised in some dialects. Labialisation is never contrastive in initial position and therefore is sometimes not transcribed. Most speakers of General American realize <r> (always rhoticized) as the retroflex approximant /?/, whereas the same is realized in Scottish English, etc. as the alveolar trill.\n" +
1282 "Voicing and aspiration of stop consonants in English depend on dialect and context, but a few general rules can be given:\n" +
1305 "English is a strongly stressed language, in that certain syllables, both within words and within phrases, get a relative prominence/loudness during pronunciation while the others do not. The former kind of syllables are said to be accentuated/stressed and the latter are unaccentuated/unstressed. All good dictionaries of English mark the accentuated syllable(s) by either placing an apostrophe-like ( ? ) sign either before (as in IPA, Oxford English Dictionary, or Merriam-Webster dictionaries) or after (as in many other dictionaries) the syllable where the stress accent falls. In general
1364 "English has an extraordinarily rich vocabulary and willingness to absorb new words. As the General Explanations at the beginning of the Oxford English Dictionary states:\n" +
3232 " Consistent balance across these factors results in a good general-purpose\n" +
3872 " from the system. See below for general guidance on writing\n" +
4385 " In general though, independent_comalloc is worth using only for\n" +
8089 " General Requirements for MORECORE.\n" +
