The same source, though, uses a different spelling in another article: "after having spent 30 years as an entertainment industry functionary — as a D.J., promoter and record label exec." The Washington Post earlier this month wrote: "Martin Solveig will serve as the house deejay at the Gibson Amphitheatre show."

Oct 8, 2012 · The "j" sound is two IPA symbols because it is a combination of two sounds, [d] (as in "dog") and [ʒ]; [dʒ] occurs at the beginning of the word "jock" [dʒɔk]. The "zh" and "j" sounds are definitely not identical to an English speaker. In fact, two words could be distinguished only by the difference between those two sounds.

Dec 17, 2022 · Where there is an initial D the word has come via a language where that makes a difference: Djawadi — German N’Djamena — French Djibouti — French Djokovic — Croatian (as Peter Shor commented) For direct transliterations into English, the D isn't needed. There are exceptions too: English doesn't use the French spelling of Tchad, for ...

His room was very messy, but D.J. loved his room. ref. I think that authors can choose whichever they want. Perhaps we should respect a real person's own preference, e.g. Charlie or Charley for Charles, and D.J. or DJ, just as we do for pronunciation. I haven't come across a space between the initials when used as a first name.

Oct 25, 2022 · It is just the sound of a so-called "soft g", or, equivalently, the typical sound of a j. Think about "allege", which rhymes with "edge". The "d" sound you hear is there in both words, but there is only a separate "d" in "edge". Personally, I don't think of the "d" as silent in the same sense that the "p" in "psychology" is silent.

Jan 29, 2014 · (English also has many [dʒ] sounds spelled with J which come from native Germanic roots.) You can see this history worked out differently in the spelling systems of German and many of the Slavic languages of Eastern Europe, where the letter J spells the "y" sound [j], and the letter Y, if used at all, is primarily used as a vowel.

Jan 24, 2016 · The letter J in English has always been pronounced the same way since it was introduced. It replaced the Old English letters cg which had the same sound: In English, j most commonly represents the affricate /dʒ/. In Old English the phoneme /dʒ/ was represented orthographically with cg and cȝ .

Jun 6, 2012 · either a, b, c, or d is from this answer sort of clear in that it means a or b or c or d. Even if or can mean all included, the either seems to indicate an exclusivity. so exactly one of them. But what does. either a, b, c, and d mean? Is this even current English? (2) in the same question there is the question about what. any one of a, b, c ...

Jul 26, 2018 · This pronunciation isn't peculiar to that region—it's virtually universal in US speech. As Kate Bunting and user070221 say, the vowel in unstressed you will usually be reduced to /ə/; and in rapid speech the dental stops /d/ and /t/ followed by palatal /j/ (orthographic ‹y›) will usually "assimilate" to an affricate: /dʒ/ (=‹j›) and /tʃ/ (=‹ch›).

Jun 10, 2016 · – J D. Commented Nov 16, 2019 at 20:11. Edited, thanks! If it be such that you object to that ...