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  2. Japanese writing system - Wikipedia

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    The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana.Kana itself consists of a pair of syllabaries: hiragana, used primarily for native or naturalized Japanese words and grammatical elements; and katakana, used primarily for foreign words and names, loanwords, onomatopoeia, scientific names, and sometimes for emphasis.

  3. Mid-Atlantic accent - Wikipedia

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    She vigorously drilled her students in learning the accent at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now, Carnegie Mellon) and, later, the Juilliard School. [10] From the 1920s to 1950s, the Mid-Atlantic accent was a popular affectation onstage, in many New York City schools, and in forms of high culture in North America.

  4. Japanese script reform - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese script reform is the attempt to correlate standard spoken Japanese with the written word, which began during the Meiji period. This issue is known in Japan as the kokugo kokuji mondai ( 国語国字問題 , national language and script problem) .

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  6. DWTS’ Mark Ballas Recruits His Mom to Explain Why His ... - AOL

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    Dancing With the Stars fans might be confused about Mark Ballas’ accent, but his mom has all the answers. “OK, Mum, some people want to know why my accent goes in and out. Why it sometimes ...

  7. Southern American English - Wikipedia

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    The Savannah accent is also becoming more Midland-like. The following vowel sounds of Atlanta, Charleston, and Savannah have been unaffected by typical Southern phenomena like the Southern drawl and Southern Vowel Shift: [57] /æ/ as in bad (the "default" General American nasal short-a system is in use, in which /æ/ is tensed only before /n ...

  8. Romanization of Japanese - Wikipedia

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    The romanization of Japanese is the use of Latin script to write the Japanese language. [1] This method of writing is sometimes referred to in Japanese as rōmaji ( ローマ字 , lit. ' Roman letters ' , [ɾoːma(d)ʑi] ⓘ or [ɾoːmaꜜ(d)ʑi] ) .

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