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In rhetoric, epizeuxis, also known as palilogia, is the repetition of a word or phrase in immediate succession, typically within the same sentence, for vehemence or emphasis. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] A closely related rhetorical device is diacope , which involves word repetition that is broken up by a single intervening word, or a small number of ...
The pronunciation in final open syllables is always phonemically /ɑ/, but it is phonetically [ɑ] or [ɔ] (Canada [kanadɑ] ⓘ or [kanadɔ] ⓘ), the latter being informal. There are some exceptions; the words la, ma, ta, sa, fa, papa and caca are always pronounced with the phoneme /a/.
Ï, lowercase ï, is a symbol used in various languages written with the Latin alphabet; it can be read as the letter I with diaeresis, I-umlaut or I-trema.. Initially in French and also in Afrikaans, Catalan, Dutch, Galician, Southern Sami, Welsh, and occasionally English, ï is used when i follows another vowel and indicates hiatus in the pronunciation of such a word.
All letters and digraphs represent unique phonemes.The main exception is if l, n(, t) are preceded by i ; most dialects palatalize the sound into /ʎ/, /ɲ/ and /c/ even if that is not written.
The Kvichak River (/ ˈ k w iː dʒ æ k / KWEE-jak; [4] Yup'ik: Kuicaraq [5]) is a large river, about 50 miles (80 km) long, in southwestern Alaska in the United States. [3] It flows southwest from Lake Iliamna to Kvichak Bay, an arm of Bristol Bay, on the Alaska Peninsula. [6]
Typewritten text in Portuguese; note the acute accent, tilde, and circumflex accent.. Portuguese orthography is based on the Latin alphabet and makes use of the acute accent, the circumflex accent, the grave accent, the tilde, and the cedilla to denote stress, vowel height, nasalization, and other sound changes.
Tikin Xic, pronounced "teekeen sheek" in Yucatec Mayan and meaning "dry fin" (making reference to the way the fish is prepared in a butterfly cut) is a fish dish prepared in the Yucatan style.
It afflicts several salmon in the genera Oncorhynchus and Salmo, [2] [3] where it causes milky flesh or tapioca disease. [1] H. zschokkei does not require oxygen to survive and is notable for being one of the few multicellular organisms in the animal kingdom to rely on an exclusively anaerobic metabolism .