A board foot is one foot long, one foot wide and one inch in thickness. Checking the Waste Mary Huston Gregory This is usually expressed in pounds per thousand board feet, a board foot being considered as one-twelfth of a cubic foot.
Sibilance is a manner of articulation of fricative and affricate consonants, made by directing a stream of air with the tongue towards the sharp edge of the teeth, which are held close together; a consonant that uses sibilance may be called a sibilant, or a strident.
pronunciation-the manner in which someone utters a word; they are always correcting my pronunciation. utterance, vocalization-the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication. assibilation, sibilation-pronunciation with a sibilant (hissing or whistling) sound.