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Ough is a four-letter sequence, a tetragraph, used in English orthography and notorious for its unpredictable pronunciation. [1] It has at least eight pronunciations in North American English and nine in British English, and no discernible patterns exist for choosing among them. [1]
William Hogarth's engraving "Hudibras Encounters the Skimmington" (illustration to Samuel Butler's Hudibras) [1]. Charivari (/ ˌ ʃ ɪ v ə ˈ r iː, ˈ ʃ ɪ v ə r iː /, UK also / ˌ ʃ ɑːr ɪ ˈ v ɑːr i /, US also / ʃ ə ˌ r ɪ v ə ˈ r iː /, [2] [3] alternatively spelled shivaree or chivaree and also called a skimmington) was a European and North American folk custom designed to ...
"A Hot Time in the Old Town". msstate.edu. [permanent dead link ] "A Hot Time in the Old Town - The Band On a Vintage Truck". YouTube. Sedalia, MO. June 2007. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Video. "The Charles Templeton Digital Sheet Music Collection". Mississippi State University. Archived from the original on 2011-07-20.
In swallowing Social Security’s stingy 2025 COLA bump, some Americans may wonder what federal officials have been drinking.. On Oct. 10, the Social Security Administration (SSA) announced that ...
The California Job Case was a compartmentalized box for printing in the 19th century, sizes corresponding to the commonality of letters. The frequency of letters in text has been studied for use in cryptanalysis, and frequency analysis in particular, dating back to the Arab mathematician al-Kindi (c. AD 801–873 ), who formally developed the method (the ciphers breakable by this technique go ...
It did not occur on an initial upsilon, which always has rough breathing (thus the early name ὕ hy, rather than ὔ y) except in certain pre-Koine dialects which had lost aspiration much earlier. The smooth breathing was kept in the traditional polytonic orthography even after the /h/ sound had disappeared from the language in Hellenistic ...
Three days after ripping his team following a home loss to Michigan, UCLA coach Mick Cronin turned his disdain toward the officials. Cronin was ejected with 5:11 remaining in a 79-61 loss at ...
Time is the continuous progression of our changing existence that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future. [1] [2] [3] It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to compare the duration of events (or the intervals between them), and to quantify rates of change of quantities in material reality or ...