:e / c Spelling pronunciation is almost always a mistake when you apply English ( or French ) rules to a non-European language.
22.
In a few place names ending in t + ham, the t-h boundary has been lost and become a spelling pronunciation, for example Grantham.
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In the word " often ", the [ t ] sound later came to be re-inserted by some speakers as a spelling pronunciation.
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If a word's spelling was standardized prior to sound changes that produced its " traditional " pronunciation, a spelling pronunciation may reflect an even older pronunciation.
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It simply happens over time, although spelling pronunciations ( off-ten for often, formerly only said /'TfYn / ) tend to counteract such changes.
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In modern Standard German, the latter development has been partially undone, so that the combination spelled, originally pronounced, is now, probably due to spelling pronunciation.
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The variant appears to have been fashionable generally during the 18th century, with the alternative being adopted in educated speech around the 1820s, possibly as a spelling pronunciation.
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:: No, the spelling pronunciation of " forehead " in any manner other than " forrid " is horrid, even on the other side of the pond.
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The current pronunciation " Meksiko " is a spelling pronunciation found occasionally in Spanish as well as English . talk ) 21 : 44, 14 June 2011 ( UTC)
30.
As noted under some of the points above, / l / may be reintroduced in some of the words from which it has been lost, as a spelling pronunciation.
