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Moorhen chick being fed regurgitated food by an adult Eastern Bluebird regurgitating food. For birds that transport food to their mates and/or their young over long distances — especially seabirds — it is impractical to carry food in their bills because of the risk that it would be stolen by other birds, such as frigatebirds, skuas and gulls.
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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 February 2025. Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters English alphabet An English-language pangram written with the FF Dax Regular typeface Script type Alphabet Time period c. 16th century – present Languages English Related scripts Parent systems (Proto-writing) Egyptian hieroglyphs Proto ...
An alphabet is a standard set of letters written to represent particular sounds in a spoken language. Specifically, letters largely correspond to phonemes as the smallest sound segments that can distinguish one word from another in a given language. [1]
The Australian pronunciation has the front vowel [ɪ] (which is more common in most varieties of English) which, due to an overall vowel shift in New Zealand, sounds like "feesh and cheeps" to the ears of a New Zealander, [30] [31] sounding like an instance of the "Fill–feel merger". Pronunciation of letters of the alphabet:
Alphabet (formal languages), in formal language theory, a finite sequence of members of an underlying base set; English alphabet, a Latin alphabet consisting of 26 letters used to write the English language; ISO basic Latin alphabet, a character-encoding standard
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The first native (not learner's) English dictionary using IPA may have been the Collins English Dictionary (1979), and others followed suit. The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (OED2, 1989) used IPA, transcribed letter-for-letter from entries in the first edition, which had been noted in a scheme by the original editor, James Murray.