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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
The process by which words or phrases borrowed between languages will be modified in their pronunciation as necessary to conform to the set of sounds used by the borrowing language.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Coined by Edward Ellis Morris; based on Hobson-Jobson.
