Thursday - see -day. Tuesday - see -day

Thursday - see -day

Tuesday - see -day

Tlingit - Normally /ˈ klɪ ŋ kʰ ɪ t/, although some dictionaries list /ˈ t(ə )lɪ ŋ kʰ ɪ t/. See the article for discussion.

Uranus (help·info) - (1) /ˈ jʊ rə nə s/ (2) /jʊ ˈ reɪ nə s/ (3) /jʊ ˈ ræ nə s/  Most dictionaries list both (1) and (2). (1) is historically the older pronunciation and reflects the first-syllable stress of the original Latin word. It is the only pronunciation given by K& K, and the first pronunciation given by LPD. It is possible that (2) began as a form of taboo avoidance because (1) sounds like urinous, but if so, the euphemism was hardly successful as (2) can be homophonous with your anus. (3) is a more recently coined third pronunciation that avoids both urinous and your anus.

valet (help·info) - (1) /væ ˈ leɪ /, (2) /ˈ væ lɪ t/, (3) /ˈ væ leɪ /  (1) is the more common pronunciation in the U. S., while (2) was historically preferred in Britain (and is still commonly used in reference to car cleaning services). K& K call (1) " pseudo-French", pointing out that the word has been in English with pronunciation (2) since the mid-16th century. (3) is common in Australia, especially in the phrase " valet parking", and is also preferred these days in Britain.

vase – U. S. pronunciation prefers vase to rhyme with race – thus /veɪ s/ (with a voiceless -s) – or raise – thus /veɪ z/ (with a voiced -s). The -a- is normally pronounced as in father, and the -s is voiced, in contemporary British English – thus /vɑ ː z/; another British pronunciation, rhyming with cause – thus /vɔ ː z/ –, seems to be obsolete (at least in Received Pronunciation): see LPD). The original (British) vowel is preserved in the modern American pronunciations, but shifted in c. 1800s.

Washington (help·info) - (1) /wɔ ʃ -/, (2) /wɔ rʃ -/  (1) is the most common pronunciation, but there is a tendency in American midlands dialects to insert an " intrusive" /r/ between /ɔ / and /ʃ /, giving (2) for the first syllable of Washington, and for the word wash. Incidentally, such a warshington pronunciation is historically common among natives of the Washington, D. C., region.

Wednesday (help·info) - (1) /wɛ nz-/, (2) /wɛ dn̩ z-/  (1) is the most common pronunciation, but the spelling pronunciation (2) is listed as a Scottish variant in some dictionaries. For the final syllable, see -day.

Worcester (help·info) - (1)(a) /ˈ wʊ stɚ / (b) /ˈ wʊ stə /, (2) /ˈ wɝ stɚ /, (3)(a) /ˈ wɔ rtʃ ɛ stɚ / (b) /ˈ wɔ ː tʃ ɛ stə /  (1) is the pronunciation insisted upon both by residents of the county town of Worcestershire in England and of Worcester, Massachusetts. (2) is sometimes found among speakers of rhotic dialects of English. (3) is often heard from those who are not familiar with the name, but it is not pronounced that way by locals of any of the places that bear the name. A similar issue occurs with the place names Leicester and Gloucester.

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