The funerals are yet to be planned because, even though there are all the signs of an accident, the coroner must pronounce a verdict.

Soon they will have to officially pronounce their verdict.

The president of the court often acted as prosecutor, denouncing defendants, then pronouncing his verdict and sentence without objection from defense counsel, who usually remained silent throughout.

They danced a little, but perhaps most famously could not decide how to pronounce the word 'neither'.

It's akin to having to pronounce the word as 'scaap' when you've only ever known it to be 'scoop' your whole life.

Other writers correlate the use of -ed and -t with the way they pronounce the word.

Sofa v settee and how you pronounce the word 'scone' — that sort of thing.

Although to be fair,' she adds, 'he looked deeply embarrassed, as if he could hardly pronounce the word.

In criminal trials, however, he always treated juries and witnesses with courtesy and, when he had to pronounce sentence, it was marked by compassion.

Even so he was a humane man and a confirmed abolitionist; he never remained in court when the judge pronounced sentence of death.

At present courts pronounce sentences that bear no relation to the time the defendant ends up spending in prison.