How to spell vis-à-vis out loud [closed]

Solution 1:

"À" is called "a-grave", named after the accent it is sporting – a "grave accent".

If you ever come across a different letter with the same accent, it'll be called "letter-grave", e.g. e-grave (È).

Other accented letters will be named similarly. The cedilla (¸) [e.g. in façade], grave (`) , acute (´) [e.g. in résumé], circumflex (ˆ) [e.g. in fête] and diaeresis (¨) [e.g. in naïve] are among the most common accent marks that speakers of English are likely to encounter. (The umlaut is identical in appearance to the diaeresis, but modifies the sound of the vowel it is attached to differently to the diaeresis.)

Solution 2:

How to spell vis-à-vis out loud:

Vis-à-vis: V ... I ... S ... dash ... a-grave ... dash ... v ... i ... s: vis-à-vis:

Origin

mid 18th century: French, literally 'face to face', from Old French vis 'face'.

In the word "a-grave" the first a is pronounced like the a in Dave, while the second a is pronounced like the a in suave (gräv).