How to pronounce “book word”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (linguistics) A word that is encountered in writing but not usually in speech, which people may therefore not know how to pronounce (correctly).
• (linguistics) A word that is borrowed into a vernacular from a closely related literary language, thus being etymologically related to native vocabulary, but not showing regular sound changes.

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Similar Sounds

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