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"English terms with audio links",
"Rhymes:English/oʊ",
"Rhymes:English/oʊ/2 syllables",
"Rhymes:English/əʊ",
"Rhymes:English/əʊ/2 syllables"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "don't"
},
"expansion": "don't",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "know"
},
"expansion": "know",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "",
"3": "do not know"
},
"expansion": "do not know",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "",
"3": "does not know"
},
"expansion": "does not know",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Written form of don't know, which is a reduction of do not know or does not know.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "dunnos",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "dunno (plural dunnos)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"An utterance of the word dunno."
],
"links": [
[
"utterance",
"utterance"
],
[
"dunno",
"dunno#Contraction"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈdʌnəʊ/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/dəˈnəʊ/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/dəˈnoʊ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/dn̩oʊ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈaɪdn̩oʊ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "(Received Pronunciation) -əʊ"
},
{
"rhymes": "(General American, after a stressed pronoun) -oʊ"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-dunno.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/98/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-I_learned_some_phrases-dunno.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-I_learned_some_phrases-dunno.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/98/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-I_learned_some_phrases-dunno.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-I_learned_some_phrases-dunno.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"text": "Audio (UK)"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"reduction (linguistics)"
],
"word": "dunno"
}
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