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Ur is the recorded name for the rune ᚢ in both Old English and Old Norse, found as the second rune in all futharks (runic alphabets starting with F, U, Þ, Ą, R, K), i.e. the Germanic Elder Futhark, the Anglo-Frisian Futhark and the Norse Younger Futhark, with continued use in the later medieval runes, early modern runes and Dalecarlian runes.
Most words are pronounced as in Canada, the five words in the left-hand column are typically pronounced with [-ɑr-], all common words ending in an unstressed full vowel. [21] In accents with the horse–hoarse merger, /ɔr/ also includes the historic /oʊr/ in words such as glory and force.
"Ode on a Grecian Urn" is a lyric ode with five stanzas containing 10 lines each. The first stanza begins with the narrator addressing an ancient urn as "Thou still unravished bride of quietness!", initiating a conversation between the poet and the object, which the reader is allowed to observe from a third-person point of view. [8]
An urn is a vase-like container. Urn may refer to: Urn problem of probability theory; Urn, an album by Ne Obliviscaris; The acronym URN may refer to: Uganda Radio Network, a Ugandan news agency; Uniform Resource Name, an Internet identifier; Unique Reference Number, an identifier of UK schools; University Radio Nottingham, England
Ur [a] (/ ʊr / or / ɜːr / [3]) was an important Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, located at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar [b] (Arabic: تَلّ ٱلْمُقَيَّر, lit.
Icelandic is the only living language to keep the letter thorn. In Icelandic, þ is pronounced þoddn, or þorn. The letter is the 30th in the Icelandic alphabet, modelled after Old Norse alphabet in the 19th century; it is transliterated to th when it cannot be reproduced [8] and never appears
In words, mostly of Latin origin, where ä and u are separated by a syllable boundary, it represents /ɛ.ʊ/, e.g. Matthäus (a German form for Matthew). aw is used in English in ways that parallel English au , though it appears more often at the end of a word. In Cornish, it represents /aʊ/ or /æʊ/.
Some nine-letter proper names remain monosyllabic when adding a tenth letter and apostrophe to form the possessive: Laugharne's / ˈ l ɑːr n z / [4] Scoughall's / ˈ s k oʊ l z / [12] In his short story, "Strychnine in the Soup", P. G. Wodehouse had a character whose surname was "Mapledurham", pronounced "Mum". This is eleven letters, while ...