Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who adopts or favors phonetic spelling.

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  • noun An expert in phonetics

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Examples

  • [Link] I'm no phoneticist, but wouldn't that be the pronunciation of "genoalogy"?

    A Pronounced Difficulty 2006

  • At the same time, an incipient fight broke out on the other side of the arc of tables between the head of the lan-guage department at Mallorysport Academy and a spinsterish ama'teur phoneticist.

    The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962

  • At the same time, an incipient fight broke out on the other side of the arc of tables between the head of the language department at Mallorysport Academy and a spinsterish amateur phoneticist.

    Little Fuzzy H. Beam Piper 1934

  • “Dutch, the closest living relative of English, lost the d of what is etymologically the same word en centuries ago,” replied the foremost modern interpreter of Denmark’s grammarian and phoneticist Otto Jespersen, “and it gets along fine without it.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • “Dutch, the closest living relative of English, lost the d of what is etymologically the same word en centuries ago,” replied the foremost modern interpreter of Denmark’s grammarian and phoneticist Otto Jespersen, “and it gets along fine without it.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • “Dutch, the closest living relative of English, lost the d of what is etymologically the same word en centuries ago,” replied the foremost modern interpreter of Denmark’s grammarian and phoneticist Otto Jespersen, “and it gets along fine without it.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • “Dutch, the closest living relative of English, lost the d of what is etymologically the same word en centuries ago,” replied the foremost modern interpreter of Denmark’s grammarian and phoneticist Otto Jespersen, “and it gets along fine without it.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • My Fair Lady's phoneticist Henry Higgin, "There even are places where English completely disappears ...

    Tyee - Home 2009

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