enableSendAllBids: false, Browse our dictionary apps today and ensure you are never again lost for words. I guess you can make an argument for either way, but if you pronounce it as an imperative ("reed"), your sentence shifts abruptly from the passive voice "John is boring" to the imperative "read this! iasLog("criterion : sfr = cdo_pronunciation"); { bidder: 'appnexus', params: { placementId: '11654156' }}, params: { That's an imperative functioning much like reed, and for which a non-imperative (saw? { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_Billboard' }}, "authorizationFallbackResponse": { dfpSlots['leftslot'] = googletag.defineSlot('/2863368/leftslot', [[120, 600], [160, 600]], 'ad_leftslot').defineSizeMapping(mapping_leftslot).setTargeting('sri', '0').setTargeting('vp', 'top').setTargeting('hp', 'left').setTargeting('ad_group', Adomik.randomAdGroup()).addService(googletag.pubads());

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},{ "—and to my ears, that makes a clunky sentence. }, iasLog("criterion : cdo_ei = understanding"); We use the pronunciation san or zan when the kanji is used in a compound word. googletag.pubads().setTargeting("cdo_tc", "resp"); defaultGdprScope: true { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195464', size: [160, 600] }}, 'buckets': [{

And sometimes more synthetic elements disappear, in the way that Old English was highly inflected, and Modern English has very little inflection at all.

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}, Your example was basically "for dry read boring. { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_topslot' }}, 'increment': 1, { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_Billboard' }}, I came in expecting to see three quick answers and a check mark all in agreement, but wow... it's another ass-wiping debate!

storage: { googletag.cmd = googletag.cmd || []; I understand it and say it as a command too ("reed"), though for what it's worth, it's something I. I would think it would depend on whether you would read it as an abbreviation of "read x like this" (the imperative) or "x is read like this" (the passive). { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '346693' }}, How to say read. { bidder: 'openx', params: { unit: '539971080', delDomain: 'idm-d.openx.net' }}, { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195465', size: [300, 250] }},

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