(Phonetics & Phonology) phonetics to pronounce with articulation involving rounded lips, such as for (k) before a close back vowel (uː) as in English cool
enounce, enunciate, pronounce, sound out, articulate, say - speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way; "She pronounces French words in a funny way"; "I cannot say `zip wire'"; "Can the child sound out this complicated word?"
But then "Bristo," where they leave the 1 off but perversely labialize all other proper names ending in open vowels -- hence the Bristolian parent introducing her/his daughters, "This one be barbaral, this one be monical, and this one be normal" -- has always been a different place, with a physical setting guaranteed to disorient and linguistic peculiarities which still bear the imprint of the early modern period, when the speech of its streets was as likely to be Welsh, Portuguese, Spanish or any other tongue -- even Irish -- as English.
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