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For words to appear here, they must appear in their own entry in a dictionary; words that occur only as part of a longer phrase are not included. Proper nouns are not included in the list. There are, in addition, many place names and personal names, mostly originating from Arabic-speaking countries, Albania, or China, that have a Q without a U.
Weak forms of function words may be realized without vowel sounds, as in I can go [aɪ kŋ̍ ˈɡoʊ] and I must sell [aɪ ms̩ ˈsɛl]. [15] Some of these forms are reflected in orthography as contractions, such as ' s, ' ll, ' d, and n't.
This was raised on AfD (VfD as it then was). The consensus was to keep it here, since it contains more than a list of definitions, and is about the words themselves more than the things they represent. Printed dictionaries do not contain lists of word curios, so Wiktionary should not either. Soo 16:10, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
The discussion was set in motion in 1954 by the British linguist Alan S. C. Ross, professor of linguistics in the University of Birmingham.He coined the terms "U" and "non-U" in an article on the differences social class makes in English language usage, published in a Finnish professional linguistics journal. [2]
Certain words, like piñata, jalapeño and quinceañera, are usually kept intact. In many instances the ñ is replaced with the plain letter n. In words of German origin (e.g. doppelgänger), the letters with umlauts ä, ö, ü may be written ae, oe, ue. [14] This could be seen in many newspapers during World War II, which printed Fuehrer for ...
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
The article is titled "Words without vowels". Discussion of words that actually don't have vowels (like tsktsks and nth) should come before words that have unusual vowels such as Y and W. Y and W are vowels when used as a vowel. See the Y article (or any dictionary...). A word such as rhythm is not truly a word without a vowel (though it is ...
(n.) a set of three successive victories in sports or athletic competitions, esp. in football and rugby league a type of bet involving three selections [84] (n.) higher range of sounds for an instrument, in music, or on the radio [84] a child's high singing voice (US: usually soprano esp. for girls); a child with, or a musical piece for, that voice