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  2. Silent fox gesture - Wikipedia

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    The silent fox hand signal A man (right) using the silent fox gesture at a rehearsal in the Staatsschauspiel Dresden. The silent fox, also known as the quiet fox, whispering fox, listening fox, or the quiet coyote, is a hand gesture used in parts of Europe and North America, and is mostly done in schools by teachers to calm down a loud classroom.

  3. Aleph - Wikipedia

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    The Egyptian "vulture" hieroglyph (Gardiner G1), by convention pronounced [a]) is also referred to as aleph, on grounds that it has traditionally been taken to represent a glottal stop ([ʔ]), although some recent suggestions [7] [8] tend towards an alveolar approximant sound instead. Despite the name it does not correspond to an aleph in ...

  4. List of animal sounds - Wikipedia

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    Certain words in the English language represent animal sounds: the noises and vocalizations of particular animals, especially noises used by animals for communication. The words can be used as verbs or interjections in addition to nouns , and many of them are also specifically onomatopoeic .

  5. Holam - Wikipedia

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    In the word דֹּאר ‎, the Biblical Hebrew spelling of the name Dor, the alef is a mater lectionis, and in traditional typography the holam is written above the alef 's right arm. In the word דֹּאַר ‎ ( /ˈdo.aʁ/ , "mail"), the alef is a consonant (a glottal stop ), under which appears the vowel pataḥ , so the ḥolam is written ...

  6. List of English words of Hebrew origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of English words of Hebrew origin.Transliterated pronunciations not found in Merriam-Webster or the American Heritage Dictionary follow Sephardic/Modern Israeli pronunciations as opposed to Ashkenazi pronunciations, with the major difference being that the letter taw (ת ‎) is transliterated as a 't' as opposed to an 's'.

  7. Alphabet of Rabbi Akiva - Wikipedia

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    Version B is a compilation of allegoric and mystic Aggadahs suggested by the names of the various letters, the component consonants being used as acrostics (). [1]Aleph (אלף = אמת למד פיך, "thy mouth learned truth") suggests truth, praise of God, faithfulness (אמונה = emunah), or the creative Word of God (אמרה = imrah) or God Himself as Aleph, Prince and Prime of all ...

  8. How The Wall Street Journal Is Starting to Sound Like Fox News

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    If you have any doubt that The Wall Street Journal is fast becoming steeped in the corporate culture of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. (NWS), I invite you to read a couple of quotations from today's ...

  9. The ABC Song - Wikipedia

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    Music for the alphabet song including some common variations on the lyrics "The ABC Song" [a] is the best-known song used to recite the English alphabet in alphabetical order.