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  2. List of irregularly spelled places in the United States

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    Also the city in New Hampshire Leicester, Massachusetts: like Lester / ˈ l ɛ s t ər / [n 19] Leicester, Vermont: LY-stər / ˈ l aɪ s t ər / Lemhi County: LEM-hy / ˈ l ɛ m h aɪ / Lemoore: lə-MOR / l ə ˈ m ɔːr / Colloquial pronunciation LEE-mor / ˈ l iː m ɔːr / Official pronunciation Leominster: LEM-in-stər / ˈ l ɛ m ɪ n s t ...

  3. Baldassare Galuppi - Wikipedia

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    Baldassare Galuppi (18 October 1706 – 3 January 1785) was a Venetian composer, born on the island of Burano in the Venetian Republic.He belonged to a generation of composers, including Johann Adolph Hasse, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, and C. P. E. Bach, whose works are emblematic of the prevailing galant music that developed in Europe throughout the 18th century.

  4. Johann Joseph Fux - Wikipedia

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    Most Italian operas of that period were concentrated on the solo aria. Whereas, Fux's operas employ an ensemble of solo singers and the large arias often use a concertizing solo instrument. Fux's emphasis on contrapuntal structures was conservative and represented the older manner of treating musical texture. [3]

  5. List of shibboleths - Wikipedia

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    Dacula, Georgia: Residents local to Gwinnett County pronounce the city as / d ə ˈ k j uː l ə / də-KEW-lə while those unfamiliar with the area may pronounce the name of the town as / ˈ d æ k ʊ l ə / DAK-uul-ə. Gwinnett County and the city of Gwinnett, GA itself is subject to a shibboleth. The names are pronounced by locals as "Gwin ...

  6. Johann Pachelbel - Wikipedia

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    The contrapuntal devices of stretto, diminution and inversion are very rarely employed in any of them. Nevertheless, Pachelbel's fugues display a tendency towards a more unified, subject-dependent structure which was to become the key element of late Baroque fugues.

  7. List of adjectivals and demonyms for cities - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of adjectival forms of cities in English and their demonymic equivalents, which denote the people or the inhabitants of these cities.. Demonyms ending in -ese are the same in the singular and plural forms.

  8. This is the right way to pronounce Cannes - AOL

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    But with even how acclaimed the festival is, many don't actually know how to pronounce Cannes. In fact, the name is at the heart at some of the biggest celebrity blunders, and it's such a debacle ...

  9. List of irregularly spelt places in the United Kingdom

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    These common suffixes have the following regular pronunciations, which are historic, well established and etymologically consistent. However, they may be counterintuitive, as their pronunciation is inconsistent with the usual phonetics of English. -b(o)rough and -burgh – / b ər ə /-bury – / b r i /-cester – / s t ər / [n 1]