The American Pronunciation Guide (“APG”) is devoted to descriptive linguistics--i.e., the study of the internal phonological, grammatical, and semantic structures of languages without reference to the history of the language or comparison with other languages. Accordingly, we believe that the best way to learn how to pronounce a word is to listen to how our peers say it. To help foster such descriptive learning, APG publishes videos combining relevant clips from popular culture. We hope you enjoy!
I’m here because I just heard someone pronounce it as “sin-chent” for the first time and was flabbergasted. I didn’t even realize that was an alternate pronunciation. Very cool to see how other people say things!
Personal experience (not saying it's a universal experience) of people introducing themselves from a regional/state perspective in USA: From KY, IN, OH, and CA: Nuyen/N'wen/Nuwen From GA, SC, AL, and TN: Win/Wen
JK Rowling is *not* "good literature". She is a bigoted racist reactionary boomer TERF that should be cancelled at every opportunity and should never share the same breath of speech as Tolkien.
This is actually Oprah Winfrey’s real name. Google it. “Orpah Gail Winfrey was born on January 29, 1954; her first name was spelled Orpah on her birth certificate after the biblical figure in the Book of Ruth, but people mispronounced it regularly and ‘Oprah’ stuck.”
