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Meaning of unpronouncing | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

That does not pronounce, or does not pronounce clearly.

not-comparable

Examples

“[…] she had one of those peculiarly English unpronouncing voices, which gave one the idea of her throat being lined with fleecy hosiery, […]”
“Here we have a thought and its full expression in the sentence "mice eat cheese." Can you not do with this pronouncing form of the sentence all that Mr. Farnham has described as being done with the other unpronouncing form of it? You can go from the thought and sentence to the idea and spoken word cheese and its printed orthographic form […]”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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