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Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Course is the route or distance over which a race or contest is run, or the progression of a game.

Detailed Definition
Course appears in poetry as a broad emblem of the path of the contest and the unfolding of the event. In literary contexts it represents the way that must be followed. Poets draw on the course to illustrate themes of the set distance, the obstacles along the way, and the cultural metaphor of the course that links the physical race to the journey of life and fortune.
Example
Example in poetry:
The course of a race or a life supplies poets with the image of the path that must be followed; Verse of the track or the journey uses the measured distance for effort and obstacle; “He ran the course as if the finish line were a form of grace” illustrates directed endurance; Educational poetry shows the term’s double life in sport and metaphor; Poets return to the course whenever the route and the cost of travel must both be felt.
Additional Notes
Course, as the measured path of a race or the progression of a game, supplies poets with a flexible image of directed effort through time and space. The word’s double life—literal track and metaphorical journey—makes it especially useful. Teachers can invite students to notice when the term shifts from the physical to the figurative. Related spaces include the track, the fairway, and the lists. The image rewards attention to the difference between the course as given and the course as run.
Also Known As
layer tack fairway
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