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Blackburn Pronunciation
Blackburn is pronounced BLAK-bern, IPA /ˈblækbɝn/.
BLAK-bern
US /ˈblækbɝn/
Syllables: BLAK · bern (2 syllables, stress on syllable 1)
proper noun: A town in Lancashire, England, and a surname from the same place.
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Blackburn in a Sentence
- Blackburn grew up around the cotton mills.
- She was born in Blackburn and moved south at twenty.
- Blackburn Rovers won the league in 1995.
Common Mispronunciations of Blackburn
Not blak-BURN
The beat is at the front, as in most English place names built from two words. The second half weakens to bern.
Not BLAK-boorn
The ur is the central vowel of her, not the oor of poor. Burn here is the northern word for a stream, said the same way as the verb.
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