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polyphone

NOUN
  1. a letter that has two or more pronunciations
    `c' is a polyphone because it is pronounced like `k' in `car' but like `s' in `cell'

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  • Hanging on the partition near the polyphone was a board about fifteen inches square, over the surface of which were distributed a number of small hooks, numbered. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
  • The Old Dear now put a penny in the slot of the polyphone, and winding it up started it playing. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
  • January 30, 2008 at 8: 52 pm | Reply polyphone klingeltöne Google’s Secret billion dollar revenue stream. « The Paradigm Shift
  • This form has been termed the polyphone or horizontal novel. Nobel Prize in Literature 1970 - Presentation Speech
  • While they were pouring this down their throats, Crass took a penny from his waistcoat pocket and put it in the slot of the polyphone. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
  • He had had six and a half pints of beer, and had listened to two selections on the polyphone at a total cost of one penny. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
  • `c' is a polyphone because it is pronounced like `k' in `car' but like `s' in `cell'
  • The polyphone continued to play 'The Boys of the Bulldog Breed.' The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
  • Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion is a very important module in a TTS system. How to decide the pronunciation of polyphone characters is a problem that hasn't been solved well in Chinese.
  • Palestrina entitled one of his famous polyphone masses "Missa Papæ Marcelli" in his honour. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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