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  2. English-language vowel changes before historic /r/ - Wikipedia

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    The relevant words and names with historic /ɛr/ are er in a stressed syllable, historic /ʊr/ are spelled as a stressed ur ,or ,our , and /ɪr/ is any ir or yr . The diaphoneme /ər/ originates from unstressed vowels before /r/ and was not otherwise distinct.

  3. The Letter People - Wikipedia

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    Alpha One, also known as Alpha One: Breaking the Code, was a first and second grade program introduced in 1968, and revised in 1974, [8] that was designed to teach children to read and write sentences containing words containing three syllables in length and to develop within the child a sense of his own success and fun in learning to read by using the Letter People characters. [9]

  4. List of forms of word play - Wikipedia

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    Ambigram: a word which can be read just as well mirrored or upside down; Blanagram: rearranging the letters of a word or phrase and substituting one single letter to produce a new word or phrase; Letter bank: using the letters from a certain word or phrase as many times as wanted to produce a new word or phrase

  5. Words and Pictures (TV programme) - Wikipedia

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    Words and Pictures is a British literacy educational television programme as part of the BBC Schools strand from 31 March 1970 to 16 March 2007. The programme is a spin-off from Look and Read , which was already providing the same type of practice and encouragement for older children.

  6. List of onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 January 2025. This is a list of onomatopoeias, i.e. words that imitate, resemble, or suggest the source of the sound that they describe. For more information, see the linked articles. Human vocal sounds Achoo, Atishoo, the sound of a sneeze Ahem, a sound made to clear the throat or to draw attention ...

  7. R-colored vowel - Wikipedia

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    [ɔ˞]: north, war In words such as start , many speakers have r-coloring only in the coda of the vowel, rather than as a simultaneous articulation modifying the whole duration. This can be represented in IPA by using a succession of two symbols such as [ɑɚ] or [ɑɹ] , rather than the unitary symbol [ɑ˞] .

  8. Erhua - Wikipedia

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    Erhua (simplified Chinese: 儿化; traditional Chinese: 兒化; pinyin: érhuà), also called "erization" or "rhotacization of syllable finals", [1] is a phonological process that adds r-coloring or the er (儿; 兒) sound to syllables in spoken Mandarin Chinese.

  9. Lists of English words - Wikipedia

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    List of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom; List of British words not widely used in the United States; List of South African English regionalisms; List of words having different meanings in American and British English: A–L; List of words having different meanings in American and British English: M–Z