There are great impediments to the general use of a standard inpronunciation comparable to that existing in spelling.(orthography). One is the fact that pronunciation is learnt’’naturally’’ and unconsciously, and orthography is learnt deliberately (1)______and consciously. Large numbers of us, in fact, remainthroughout our lives quite unconscious with what our speech(2)______sounds like when we speak out, and it often comes as a shock　　(3)______when we firstly hear a recording of ourselves. It is not a voice we (4)______recognize at once, whereas our own handwriting is somethingwhich we almost always know. We begin the ’’natural’’ learning(5)______of pronunciation long before we start learning to read or write,and in our early years we went on unconsciously imitating and　　(6)______practicing the pronunciation of those around us for many morehours per every day than we ever have to spend learning even (7)______our difficultEnglish spelling. This is ’’ natural’’, therefore, that 　(8)______our speech-sounds should be those of our immediate circle；afterall, as we have seen, speech operates as a means of holding acommunity and giving a sense of ’’belonging’’. We learn quite (9)______early to recognize a ’’stranger’’, someone who speaks with an accentof a different community--perhaps only a few miles far.　(10)______