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How to pronounce per in English?

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per annum.
per capita, by heads, or according to individuals.
per curiam, by the court.
per se, by itself, of itself.

Examples of per

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In the last five games, he has piled up 29 turnovers, just less than 6 per game.
From the dailyherald.com
In-district students would pay $85 per credit hour, compared to the current $80.
From the stltoday.com
Top-ranked Georgia had nearly four times as many entrepreneurs, 590 per 100,000.
From the stltoday.com
By my calculations that equates to a 60 mph speed limit, or one mile per minute.
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She is an attorney and signed a contract to do per diem work for a local lawyer.
From the newsday.com
Let's hope the Edson Barboza fight is for real, and makes the pay-per-view card.
From the newsday.com
Voters agreed last spring to pay 50 cents per $1,000 of assessed property value.
From the thenewstribune.com
Kirschner and Williams each averaged more than nine points per game last season.
From the thenewstribune.com
Broken down on a per-student basis, the Irish spend the most, the database says.
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  • (peri) a beautiful and graceful girl
  • (peri) (Persian folklore) a supernatural being descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until penance is done
  • Pu00E9r is a village in Gyu0151r-Moson-Sopron county, Hungary.
  • Period (per) is a gene in Drosophila which encodes a protein, PER, regulating circadian rhythm. There are some known alleles of the per gene that can make the circadian cycle longer or shorter than the usual cycle (which is around 24 hours). It is still uncertain how exactly this gene operates.
  • Per is a Scandinavian masculine given name. It is derived from the Greek word u03C0u03B5u03C4u03C1u03BFu03C2 (petros) meaning "stone" or "rock". The name is a variant of Peter, a common masculine name of the same origin. Other Scandinavian variants of Per are Pehr, Peer and Pu00E4r.
  • Pr is the hieroglyph for 'house', the floor-plan of a walled building with an open doorway. Though its original pronunciation is unknown, modern egyptology assigns it the value of Per.
  • Per was the name of a powerful storm with hurricane winds which hit the west coast of Sweden and Norway on the morning of 14 January 2007. In Sweden six people died from the storm and approximately 300,000 households were left without electricity.
  • In Persian mythology and Armenian mythology, the Peri (Persian: u067Eu0631u06CCu200Eu200E pari) are exquisite, winged fairy-like spirits ranking between angels and evil spirits. They sometimes visit the realm of mortals.
  • The ISO 3166-1 three-letter (alpha-3) code for Peru