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Chutes and ladders; Pilot chute, a small auxiliary parachute used to deploy a main parachute; Chute (racecourse), a projection extending from either end of an oval-shaped racecourse; Squeeze chute, a cage for restraining a farm animal; Chute (in North America), a cattle race, a channel for handling and sorting farm animals
The English spoken in the West Indies, [103] in Africa [104] and in India [105] are probably better characterized as syllable-timed, though the lack of an agreed scientific test for categorizing an accent or language as stress-timed or syllable-timed may lead one to doubt the value of such a characterization.
Chaloner Chute (died 1666) (1632–1666), English lawyer and politician; Charles Chute (1879–1956), English barrister, landowner, and politician; Christopher G. Chute (born 1955), American biomedical informatics researcher; Desmond Chute (1895–1962), English poet, artist and Catholic priest; Harris H. Chute (c. 1823 – 1892), merchant and ...
Spoken English shows great variation across regions where it is the predominant language. The United Kingdom has a wide variety of accents, and no single "British accent" exists. This article provides an overview of the numerous identifiable variations in pronunciation of English.
Respelling non-English pronunciations into English is inadequate and misleading. If an English respelling is given for a Welsh or Māori name, not only would it be bad Welsh or Māori but the implication would be that it's the English pronunciation. Nonetheless, an ad hoc description of a non-English language word in that language is permitted.
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The TRAP–BATH split is a vowel split that occurs mainly in the southern and mainstream varieties of English in England (including Received Pronunciation), in the Southern Hemisphere accents of English (Australian English, New Zealand English, South African English), and also to a lesser extent in older Boston English, by which the Early ...