Question 1

How do native speakers pronounce "dissanayake" in English?

Accepted Answer

In natural English speech, "dissanayake" appears in contexts such as: "Since the beginning of our species, we have been making these beautiful, weird, funny, interesting things for no bigger purpose at all. Anthropologist Ellen Dissanayake actually has a name for this capacity. She calls it “making special.” In her work studying early human societies, she also kept noticing an interesting pattern.". Listen to the exact timestamped clip in the accompanying video with synchronized subtitles.

Question 2

Where can I hear "dissanayake" used in a real sentence?

Accepted Answer

Our pronunciation database found 2 conversational video occurrences of "dissanayake" with real-time synchronized transcripts and sentence context.

How to pronounce“dissanayake”in English

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