Do You Pronounce Roulette
‘Do not assume you will ever be a winner in the long run at negative expectation games (e.g., craps, roulette, baccarat, keno, most slots).’ ‘In a game of roulette, assuming the wheel is fairly balanced, you might say that the past results show that you can't tell what's coming next.’. Russian roulette pronunciation. How to say Russian roulette. Listen to the audio pronunciation in English. How do you say Roule? Listen to the audio pronunciation of Roule on pronouncekiwi. Learn to pronounce Roulette the proper way. Verified by English speaking experts.
Italian Alphabet and Sounds[edit]
The Italian alphabet is identical to the English one but the sound of certain letters is different. Double letters sound stronger and more stressed than single ones. Every letter or sound is represented in one unique way, and every letter is always read in the same way, with the exception of ‘’c’’ and ‘’g’’ whose pronunce depends on following vowel (similarly to English) and ‘’s’’ and ‘’z’’ that can be both pronounced voiced or not.
| Letter | Pronunciation | Name in italian |
|---|---|---|
| a | Like in 'Cat' | A |
| b | Like in 'But' | Bi (English: Bee) |
| c | Like in 'Chess' if the following letter is e/i, otherwise it's like in 'Cake' | Ci (English: Chee) |
| c + h | Always pronounced like a 'K' | CH |
| d | Like in 'Diamond' | Di (English: Dee) |
| e | Like in 'Elephant' or if a long vowel sound, such as when at the end of a word, 'A' like in 'they' | E |
| f | Like in 'Father' | Effe (English: EffE) |
| g | Like in 'General' if the following letter is e/i, otherwise it's like in 'Gun' | Gi (English: Gee) |
| g + h | Always pronounced like in 'Gate' | GH |
| h | never pronounced, but if between c (or g) and e/i, it changes their sound (see c,g) | Acca |
| i | Like the double 'E' sound in 'Street', never as 'Island', never as 'Kid' | I (English: Ee) |
| j | usually pronounced (in the few original Italian words spelled with this letter) like y in yacht, e.g. jella (misluck) sounds like 'Yell'-'ah' | Jay/ ilunga |
| k | Only on foreign words, pronounced usually like in English. | Kappa |
| l | Like in 'Left' | Elle |
| m | Like in 'Metal' | Emme |
| n | Like in 'Never' | Enne |
| o | Like in 'Open' | O |
| p | Like in 'People' | Pi (English: Pee) |
| q | always followed by U, it's like in 'Quarterback' | Qu (English Ku) |
| r | Like in 'Rock' but the sound is different: italians pronounce it by making the tip of the tongue tremble closer to the front teeth | Erre |
| s | Like in 'Sing', or like in 'reason'. | Esse |
| t | Like in 'Time' | Ti (English: Tea) |
| u | Like in 'Boot' | U (English: oo) |
| v | Like in 'Volleyball' | Vi/Vu (English Vee) |
| w | Only on foreign words, pronounced usually like in English. | Doppia Vi/ Doppia Vu |
| x | Not common in Italian, used nowadays often in the prefix 'ex-' ('former' in English). It is always pronounced 'ks' (as in wax), never 'gz'(as in example) even in foreign words. | Ics |
| y | Only appears in foreign words or in scientific words derived from Ancient Greek. Pronounced like 'Yttrium' | Ypsilon |
| z | In most words, it is pronounced ts as in 'Cats', e.g. Influenza 'Influentsa' (eng. influenza). There is also a voiced pronunciation, dz as in 'she adds on'. Its pronunciation is always intense, regardless of whether as a single or double letter. When appearing as a single letter, it most commonly has the ts pronunciation (but: in northern Italy, it is always pronounced dz at beginning of a word), as is also always the case when followed by i+vowel, e.g. inizio (beginning) pronounced 'in-ee-ts-yoh'. | Zeta |
| zz | a definite 'tz' sound - think 'pizza'. But with exceptions, for example, in the verbs of the -izzare group (english -yze or -ize like realize), e.g. paralizzare (paralyze), 'pah-rah-lee-dzah-reh'. |
- Since j, k, w, x, y are not 'italian' letters (they only appear in foreign words), they are pronounced exactly as in English. X is a common letter in Sicilian language words derived from Greek. Thus, when certain toponyms and family names are rendered in Italian, they preserve the X. Examples include Bettino Craxi, or Sant'Angelo Muxaro. In these examples, the X is pronounced similar to English KS.
Particular phonemes[edit]
There are, however, digraphs/trigraphs that have their own particular phonemes:
How Do You Pronounce Russian Roulette
| Letters | Pronunciation tools | Words in Italian |
|---|---|---|
| gli | called 'laterale palatale' [ʎ], it's very close to the sound of 'Yes' or 'Yiddish' or the Spanish 'LL'; however, the 'L' sound is also pronounced (LYA/ LYO...). | Paglia (straw), Aglio (garlic) |
| gn | called 'nasale palatale' [ɲ], this sound is made by sticking your tongue on your palate while pronouncing a sort of N; as a result the sound will be nasal. In Spanish this sound is represented by the letter ñ, in English it could be rendered, for example, in a mispronounced 'onion' ['ʌɲjən] Another way that it could be rendered is the same as the word 'Poignant,' as the sound of the 'gn' is identical to what it sounds like in Italian. | Gnocchi, Bolognese |
| sce/sci | the sound of the digraph SC (normally that of 'Sky), when followed immediately by E or I, becomes that of 'Shame'. Coherently, the word 'Schermo' (screen), is to be pronounced like skermo, not like scermo, because of the letter h immediately after the digraph. | Scienza (science), Scegliere (to choose) |
UNDER DEVELOPMENT
noun
How Do You Pronounce Roulette
1A gambling game in which a ball is dropped onto a revolving wheel (roulette wheel) with numbered compartments, the players betting on the number at which the ball will come to rest.
‘The book does provide reasonable introductions to several casino games, such as roulette, craps, and baccarat.’- ‘The site offers slots, roulette and animated card games including poker and blackjack.’
- ‘Players at the hotel's casino can choose from four gambling tables, three of them for card games and one for roulette.’
- ‘Do not assume you will ever be a winner in the long run at negative expectation games (e.g., craps, roulette, baccarat, keno, most slots).’
- ‘In a game of roulette, assuming the wheel is fairly balanced, you might say that the past results show that you can't tell what's coming next.’
- ‘It was pretty much an all night event at a recreation center that had ping-pong, racquetball, casino games like blackjack and roulette, and basketball courts.’
- ‘Gaming tables, electronic roulette and rows of Las Vegas-style slots fill the casino floor, divided into smoking and non-smoking areas.’
- ‘New fixed-odds terminals featuring a number of games including roulette were named as the driving force of recent growth at the group's 2,000 betting shops.’
- ‘Risk, he argued, was a randomness - as in a game of roulette - whose probability could be determined.’
- ‘His books on blackjack, roulette, video poker, craps, slots and new games are consistently on the most-requested books lists of Ingram and other distributors.’
- ‘Roulette is the most popular game in Europe; where there is only one zero on the wheel, and the player's money lasts longer.’
- ‘Were this to be your goal, roulette could still be your game but an alternate approach would be appropriate.’
- ‘There are five information-packed little sections on roulette.’
- ‘It is one of the best resources for isolating some of the earliest refinements by cheats for shooting craps and for cheating at roulette.’
- ‘Some 1800 people have registered for online roulette from the casino since the service opened in July.’
- ‘The artist was famous, of course, for his preoccupation with chess and roulette.’
- ‘Blackjack is the only game in town, because unlike roulette or craps, what has gone before will influence what is about to happen.’
- ‘Jean, a young man who works as a bank clerk, is invited to the casino by a friend and promptly wins big at roulette.’
- ‘Explaining that he'd been playing roulette, his wife asked how he did.’
- ‘Day after day, he loses at poker, he loses at roulette, and he loses in life - for he's now addicted to heroin.’
2A tool or machine with a revolving toothed wheel, used in engraving or for making slit-shaped perforations between postage stamps.
‘This is a method of puncturing a plate with roulettes, punches, and other tools so that modelling is achieved with greater or lesser accumulations of dots.’- ‘Frequently the engraver began by etching the foundation of the design, and then built it up by the use of a special curved burin and by roulettes, punches, and other tools.’
transitive verb
[with object]Make slit-shaped perforations in (paper, especially sheets of postage stamps)
- ‘the pages are rouletted next to the binding’
How Do U Pronounce Roulette
Origin
Mid 18th century from French, diminutive of rouelle ‘wheel’, from late Latin rotella, diminutive of Latin rota ‘wheel’.
