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The sound of a hard c often precedes the non-front vowels a , o and u , and is that of the voiceless velar stop, /k/ (as in car). The sound of a soft c , typically before e , i and y , may be a fricative or affricate, depending on the language.
The Baltimore accent that originated among white blue-collar residents closely resembles blue-collar Philadelphia-area English pronunciation in many ways. These two cities are the only major ports on the Eastern Seaboard never to have developed non-rhotic speech among European American speakers; they were greatly influenced in their early development by Hiberno-English, Scottish English, and ...
Denmark (Zealand) seen from the Swedish (Scania) side of Øresund Øresund Bridge from the air in September 2015. Øresund or Öresund (UK: / ˌ ɜːr ə ˈ s ʊ n d /, US: / ˈ ɜːr ə s ʌ n,-s ʊ n d, ˈ ɔːr ə s ʊ n d /; [1] [2] [3] Danish: Øresund [ˈøːɐˌsɔnˀ]; Swedish: Öresund [œːrɛˈsɵnːd]), [4] commonly known in English as the Sound, [5] is a strait which forms the ...
In geography, a sound is a smaller body of water usually connected to a sea or an ocean. A sound may be an inlet that is deeper than a bight and wider than a fjord ; or a narrow sea channel or an ocean channel between two land masses, such as a strait ; or also a lagoon between a barrier island and the mainland.
The sound is 30 nautical miles (56 km) long and from 7 to 12 nautical miles (13 to 22 km) wide. [2] The Tabarin Peninsula forms the southwestern coast of the Antarctic Sound and contains several bays, the main ones being Hope Bay and Trepassey Bay. [3] Cube Rock lies in the southern entrance southeast of Cape Scrymgeour. [4]
It is separated from the Atlantic Ocean by the Currituck Banks, a barrier peninsula upon which the town of Kitty Hawk is located, at the eastern edge of the sound, and part of the greater Outer Banks region. Roanoke Island is situated at the southeastern corner of the sound, where it connects to Pamlico Sound. Much of the water in the Albemarle ...
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Chatham Sound is characterized by lower salinity near-surface waters on its eastern side, transitioning to higher salinity near-surface waters on the western side. [ 2 ] Chatham Sound is an area of very large tides, with tidal ranges reaching peak values of 7.7 metres (25 ft) and an average tidal range of 4.9 metres (16 ft). [ 6 ]