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2. Speech tempo - Wikipedia

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   Speakers vary their speed of speaking according to contextual and physical factors. A typical speaking rate for English is 4 syllables per second, [5] but in different emotional or social contexts the rate may vary, one study reporting a range between 3.3 and 5.9 syl/sec, [6] Another study found significant differences in speaking rate between story-telling and taking part in an interview.

3. Wikipedia:List of English contractions - Wikipedia

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   you all (colloquial/Southern American English) y’all’d’ve: you all would have (colloquial/Southern American English) y’all’dn't’ve: you all would not have (colloquial/Southern American English) y’all’re: you all are (colloquial/Southern American English) y’all’ren’t: you all are not (colloquial/Southern American English) y ...

4. List of Latin abbreviations - Wikipedia

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   abbreviation or word Latin translation usage and notes AB Artium Baccalaureus "Bachelor of Arts" An undergraduate bachelor's degree awarded for either a course or a program in the liberal arts or the sciences, or both. a.C.n. ante Christum natum "before Christ" "B.C." is commonly used in English instead to convey this meaning. ad. nat. delt.

5. List of Latin phrases (P) - Wikipedia

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   by royal letters: by letters patent; of academic degrees: awarded by letters patent from the King/Queen, rather than by a University [4] [5] per mare per terram: by sea and by land: Motto of the Royal Marines and (with small difference) of Clan Donald and the Compagnies Franches de la Marine: per mensem (pm.) by month: Thus, "per month", or ...

6. English grammar - Wikipedia

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   The first published English grammar was a Pamphlet for Grammar of 1586, written by William Bullokar with the stated goal of demonstrating that English was just as rule-based as Latin. Bullokar's grammar was faithfully modeled on William Lily's Latin grammar, Rudimenta Grammatices (1534), used in English schools at that time, having been ...

7. Pace (narrative) - Wikipedia

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   In literature, pace or pacing is the speed at which a story is told—not necessarily the speed at which the story takes place. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is an essential element of storytelling that plays a significant role in maintaining reader interest, building tension, and conveying the desired emotional impact. [ 4 ]

8. Capitalization in English - Wikipedia

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   Generally acronyms and initialisms are capitalized, e.g., "NASA" or "SOS". Sometimes, a minor word such as a preposition is not capitalized within the acronym, such as "WoW" for "World of Warcraft". In some British English style guides, only the initial letter of an acronym is capitalized if the acronym is read as a word, e.g., "Nasa" or ...

9. Most common words in English - Wikipedia

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   Frequency analysis, the study of the frequency of letters or groups of letters; Letter frequencies; Oxford English Corpus; Swadesh list, a compilation of basic concepts for the purpose of historical-comparative linguistics; Zipf's law, a theory stating that the frequency of any word is inversely proportional to its rank in a frequency table