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title: "How to pronounce epithet | Murmur"
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# How to pronounce epithet

Check epithet pronunciation with CMUdict sound tokens and stress, then practise two original sentences and download a voiceover audition worksheet.

## The dictionary sound sequence

CMUdict lists this North American English pronunciation for **epithet**. Read each sequence from left to right. The numbers mark vowel stress: **1** primary, **2** secondary, **0** unstressed.

Dictionary variant 1

`EH1 P AH0 TH EH2 T`

**Syllable estimate**

3 vowel nuclei

**Primary stress**

1st vowel position

**Secondary stress**

3rd vowel position

[Check epithet in Merriam-Webster and listen to available dictionary audio](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/epithet).

Syllable counts come from vowel tokens; CMUdict does not supply syllable boundaries here. Variant order follows the dictionary and does not rank correctness. This lexicon does not represent every accent or context.

## Use epithet in context

Epithet names a descriptive expression associated with a person or thing and can also refer to an insulting label. Literary and historical narration should establish which meaning applies. When analyzing dialogue, a narrator should distinguish discussing an expression from adopting the speaker's attitude toward its target.

1. The poem repeats the epithet to reinforce the hero's reputation.
2. The witness recalled the epithet without repeating it aloud.

### A practice cue

Audition epithet with the explanation of the expression's function. If your script includes quoted language, compare the quotation with the analysis and use pacing or attribution to keep the narrator's explanation distinct from the original speaker's judgment.

## Read the sound tokens

Each example word below is a cue for the named sound, rather than a respelling of epithet. Unstressed vowels may sound reduced. These cues follow the [CMU phoneme-set key (Appendix A)](https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aria/Papers/MastersThesis.pdf#page=115).

`EH`sound in **Ed**vowel`P`sound in **pee**consonant`AH`sound in **hut**vowel`TH`sound in **theta**consonant`T`sound in **tea**consonant

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## Make an audition worksheet

Select a dictionary variant for your checklist. The two original sentences retain their normal spelling; this worksheet helps you review a recording rather than forcing a speech engine to use phonemes.

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## Dictionary source

The phonemes on this page come from [CMU Pronouncing Dictionary](https://github.com/cmusphinx/cmudict/blob/74790861f652b15e4ac49015a90074ad62a27690/cmudict.dict). The dictionary maintainers acknowledge that errors and omissions can remain; check another source or a speaker when the pronunciation matters.

[CMUdict README](https://github.com/cmusphinx/cmudict/blob/74790861f652b15e4ac49015a90074ad62a27690/README) · [Included dictionary license](https://www.murmurtts.com/downloads/cmudict-license.txt)

Source version and checksum

Commit: `74790861f652b15e4ac49015a90074ad62a27690`

Dictionary SHA-256: `81917843c7f44ce2b094ac63873c2c7a4cf802040792c455ba3ca406891c3d22`

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