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Latest comment: 1 month ago by 96.95.187.202 in topic Bizness as pronunciation spelling of business

Bizness as pronunciation spelling of business

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UrbanDictionary

For popular definitions by the urban public, which most prominently spell words based on their sounds, this is a useful resource to see how they spell certain words and the popularity of those spellings based on upvotes. By comparing other pronunciation spellings for "business" on this website, we see that "bizness" is the most popular of them:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bizness

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=The%20Bizness


IPA

As indicated by the IPA of the word "business" (/bɪz-/), we can conclude that "biz-" is the most common pronunciation spelling to begin the word: business

Then an IPA analysis shows that the most popular spelling of both /-nəs/ and /-nɪs/ is "-ness" by an order of magnitude, which can be seen at: https://www.rhymedesk.com/phonemes or using a downloadable ipa-dict like: https://github.com/open-dict-data/ipa-dict/blob/master/data/en_US.txt


Merriam-Webster, Dictionary.com, Collins, Cambridge, Oxford's OED

All of these major dictionaries have the word "biz" defined as a short version of "business." 96.95.187.202 22:15, 9 November 2024 (UTC)Reply