enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Profanity - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profanity

    Profanity is often depicted in images by grawlixes, which substitute symbols for words.. Profanity, also known as swearing, cursing, or cussing, involves the use of notionally offensive words for a variety of purposes, including to demonstrate disrespect or negativity, to relieve pain, to express a strong emotion, as a grammatical intensifier or emphasis, or to express informality or ...

  3. Ghoti - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti

    The expected pronunciation in English would sound like "goatee" / ˈ ɡ oʊ t i /, not "fish". [ 1 ] Both of the digraphs in the spelling – gh and ti – are examples of consonant shifts, the gradual transformation of a consonant in a particular spoken context while retaining its identity in writing.

  4. Category:English profanity - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:English_profanity

    Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; Recent changes; Upload file

  5. Place names considered unusual - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_names_considered_unusual

    Fucking, Austria.The village was renamed on 1 January 2021 to "Fugging" [1] Hell, Norway.The hillside sign is visible in the background in the left corner. Place names considered unusual can include those which are also offensive words, inadvertently humorous (especially if mispronounced) or highly charged words, [2] as well as place names of unorthodox spelling and pronunciation, including ...

  6. International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic...

    For example, the English word little may be transcribed broadly as [ˈlɪtəl], approximately describing many pronunciations. A narrower transcription may focus on individual or dialectical details: [ˈɫɪɾɫ] in General American, [ˈlɪʔo] in Cockney, or [ˈɫɪːɫ] in Southern US English.

  7. North American English regional phonology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_English...

    A General American accent is not a specific well-defined standard English in the way that Received Pronunciation (RP) has historically been the standard prestigious variant of the English language in England; rather, accents with a variety of features can all be perceived by Americans as "General American" so long as they lack certain ...

  8. Curse - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse

    In particular, "curse" may refer to such a wish or pronouncement made effective by a supernatural or spiritual power, such as a god or gods, a spirit, or a natural force, or else as a kind of spell by magic (usually black magic) or witchcraft; in the latter sense, a curse can also be called a hex or a jinx.

  9. Category:Curses - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Curses

    Curse and mark of Cain; Curse of 39; Curse of Carlisle; Curse of Ham; Curse of Muldoon; Curse of Scotland; Curse of the Boulder Valley; Curse of the Braganzas; Curse of the ninth; Curse of Timur; Curse of Tippecanoe; Curse of Turan; Cursed Films; Curses of Cain and Ham and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Cursing of the fig tree