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  2. Liaison (French) - Wikipedia

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    Liaison only happens when the following word starts with a vowel or semivowel, and is restricted to word sequences whose components are linked in sense, e.g., article + noun, adjective + noun, personal pronoun + verb, and so forth. This indicates that liaison is primarily active in high-frequency word associations (collocations).

  3. Matura - Wikipedia

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    The basic marks range from 4 to 10 where a 5 is the lowest passing mark; applicants fill out forms indicating their preferred universities with no ranking between them. The State Matura replaced an admission system conducted individually by each faculty/university which was seen as abusive.

  4. File:The Big Parade (1925) booklet.pdf - Wikipedia

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    PDF is used for representing two-dimensional documents in a manner independent of the application software, hardware, and operating system. Each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a fixed-layout 2D document that includes the text, fonts, images, and 2D vector graphics which compose the documents.

  5. Elision (French) - Wikipedia

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    In French, elision (élision) is the suppression of a final unstressed vowel (usually /ə/) immediately before another word beginning with a vowel or a silent h . The term also refers to the orthographic convention by which the deletion of a vowel is reflected in writing, and indicated with an apostrophe .

  6. Handbook - Wikipedia

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    A technician referring to an instructional handbook for the operation of a machine Early 20th century handbook for operating a motor car. A handbook is a type of reference work, or other collection of instructions, that is intended to provide ready reference.

  7. Longest word in French - Wikipedia

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    The word is formed from the Latin word sesquipedalia (singular sesquipedalis), which the Ancient Roman poet Horace used in Ars Poetica to describe excessively long words; literally, it means "a foot-and-a-half long".

  8. Owner's manual - Wikipedia

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    2007 Toyota Yaris hatchback owner's manual 1919 Ford Motor Company car and truck operating manual. An owner's manual (also called an instruction manual or a user guide) is an instructional book or booklet that is supplied with almost all technologically advanced consumer products such as vehicles, home appliances and computer peripherals.

  9. Pamphlet - Wikipedia

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    The earliest appearance of the word is in The Philobiblon (1344; ch. viii) of Richard de Bury, who speaks of "panfletos exiguos" {'little pamphlets'}. [5] Its modern connotations of a tract concerning a contemporary issue was a product of the heated arguments leading to the English Civil War; this sense appeared in 1642. [3]