The Pampered Chef

The products gained popularity in the 1990s, even as many other "party plan" merchandisers were faltering due to changing lifestyles, and was acquired in 2002 by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Corporation. Depending on the author, terms such as allophone and speech sound may be used instead. Founded in the 1980s by Doris Christopher the company began to sell these items to housewives on the "party plan", a system in which a homemaker invited her friends over for a social event at which the products were demonstrated and sold, a concept first used with great success with Tupperware. The term phone is not as common as its phonological equivalent, the phoneme. The Pampered Chef is a line of kitchen tools and other aids to cooking. For many if not most linguists, terms such as phone and pronunciation apply equally to oral and sign language. The word originates from Greek φωνή, meaning "sound" and also "voice".

Phonetic symbology is set off within brackets. Within phonetics, a phone is. The basic unit revealed via phonetic speech analysis. A particular occurrence of a speech segment.

A speech segment that possess distinct physical or perceptual properties. a speech sound or gesture considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language.