Re: Pronunciation dictionaries?

p.numminen@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Are there words in Spanish whose pronunciation is not predictable from
their orthography? How many?

I cannot know that without a pronouncing dictionary.

Of course you can. You only need open any grammar which will tell you that 'spanish is pronounced as it is written' in order to know that. I suppose finnish isn't very different.

Also, spanish phonetics are simple enough that no situations like the german one where <st> can be st- [St] or -s t- [st] seem to occur.

I'd be hard pressed to come up with any counter-example to this regularity, but then I'm not spanish. Possibly, foreign words not yet naturalised may do it.
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