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[2] [b] The diaeresis diacritic indicates that two adjoining letters that would normally form a digraph and be pronounced as one sound, are instead to be read as separate vowels in two syllables. For example, in the spelling "coöperate", the diaeresis reminds the reader that the word has four syllables co-op-er-ate, not three, *coop-er-ate.
When the prefix "re-" is added to a monosyllabic word, the word gains currency both as a noun and as a verb. Most of the pairs listed below are closely related: for example, "absent" as a noun meaning "missing", and as a verb meaning "to make oneself missing".
v is the only letter that cannot be used to form an English two-letter word in the British [4] and Australian [5] versions of the game of Scrabble. It is one of only two letters (the other being c ) that cannot be used this way in the American version. [6] [7] v is also the only letter in the English language that is never silent. [8]
Some usages identified as American English are common in British English; e.g., disk for disc. A few listed words are more different words than different spellings: "aeroplane/airplane", "mum/mom". See also: American and British English differences, Wikipedia:List of common misspellings and Wikipedia:Manual of Style#National varieties of English
FUT [2] Ʊ ʊ ᶷ Upsilon IPA /ʊ/ IPA near-close near-back rounded vowel, African languages Anii, Anyin, Foodo, Kabiyé, Konni, Lukpa, Tem, Yom; cf. Greek: Υ υ: ᴠ: Small capital V FUT [2] Ỽ ỽ Middle Welsh V Medieval Welsh [9] Ʌ ʌ ᶺ Turned V IPA /ʌ/ IPA open-mid back unrounded vowel, Ch'ol, Naninka, Northern Tepehuán, Temne ...
The words given as examples for two different symbols may sound the same to you. For example, you may pronounce cot and caught the same , do and dew , or marry and merry . This often happens because of dialect variation (see our articles English phonology and International Phonetic Alphabet chart for English dialects ).
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Hawaiian syllable structure is (C)V(V) where C is any consonant and V is any vowel, which can be long or short. Double vowels (VV) represent falling diphthongs, whose first elements can be either long or short. [1] All CV(V) syllables occur except for wū, but wu occurs only in two words borrowed from English. Word stress is predictable in ...