How do you pronounce phalanx?
What is the word phalanx mean?
1 : a body of heavily armed infantry in ancient Greece formed in close deep ranks and files broadly : a body of troops in close array. 2 plural phalanges : one of the digital bones of the hand or foot of a vertebrate. 3 plural usually phalanxes.
How is an pronounced?
It’s very unusual, but we can and then their pronunciation changes. A becomes a (ay), and an becomes an (aan). And if we’re saying the letter of the alphabet, we say Ay.
Do you pronounce the L in guillotine?
Guillotine Despite the oft-heard GEE-uh-teen, this word is traditionally pronounced GILL-uh-teen. In the early 19th century, Noah Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language called for the l’s to be pronounced. The word is properly pronounced with the emphasis on the second syllable.