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  2. Lists of acronyms - Wikipedia

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    Lists of acronyms contain acronyms, a type of abbreviation formed from the initial components of the words of a longer name or phrase. They are organized alphabetically and by field. They are organized alphabetically and by field.

  3. 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

  4. English orthography - Wikipedia

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    Another example includes words like mean / ˈ m iː n / and meant / ˈ m ɛ n t /, where ea is pronounced differently in the two related words. Thus, again, the orthography uses only a single spelling that corresponds to the single morphemic form rather than to the surface phonological form.

  5. List of acronyms: E - Wikipedia

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    initialism = an abbreviation pronounced wholly or partly using the names of its constituent letters, e.g., CD = compact disc, pronounced cee dee pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters mean that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words).

  6. List of diminutives by language - Wikipedia

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    -′tje for words ending in -y and for abbreviations: baby → baby'tje, cd → cd'tje, A4 → A4'tje-etje for words ending in -b, -l, -m, -n, -ng or -r preceded by a "short" (lax) vowel: bal → balletje (ball), kam → kammetje (comb), ding → dingetje (thing), kar → karretje (cart). Note that except for the ending -ng the final consonant ...

  7. List of English words that may be spelled with a ligature

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    When ae makes the diphthong / eɪ / (lay) or / aɪ / (eye). When ae is found in a foreign phrase or loan word and it is unacceptable to use the ligature in that language. For example, when in a German loan word or phrase, if the a with an umlaut (ä) is written as ae , it is incorrect to write it with the ligature.

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  9. List of Latin-script digraphs - Wikipedia

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    In the list, letters with diacritics are arranged in alphabetical order according to their base, e.g. å is alphabetised with a , not at the end of the alphabet, as it would be in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish. Substantially-modified letters, such as ſ (a variant of s ) and ɔ (based on o ), are placed at the end.