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Ululation (/ ˌ j uː lj ʊ ˈ l eɪ ʃ ən, ˌ ʌ l-/ ⓘ, [1] [2] from Latin ululo), trilling or lele, is a long, wavering, high-pitched vocal sound resembling a howl with a trilling quality. It is produced by emitting a high pitched loud voice accompanied with a rapid back and forth movement of the tongue and the uvula .
The English legal handwriting of the Middle Ages has no capital F. A double f (ff) was used to represent the capital letter. In transcribing, I should write F, not ff; e. g. Fiske, not ffiske. The replacement of manuscript word-initial ff by F is now a scholarly convention. [3] Usage in names such as Charles ffoulkes and Richard ffrench ...
Based mostly on Northern Italy's languages (mainly Venetian and Genoese) and secondarily on Occitano-Romance languages (Catalan and Occitan) in the western Mediterranean area at first, Lingua Franca later came to have more Spanish and Portuguese elements, especially on the Barbary Coast (now referred to as the Maghreb).
It is often doubled at the end of words. Exceptionally, it represents the voiced labiodental fricative / v / in the common word "of" and its derivatives. F is the eleventh least frequently used letter in the English language (after G, Y, P, B, V, K, J, X, Q, and Z), with a frequency of about 2.23% in words.
(In the standard dialect of Middle English, the sounds became /i/ and /iː/; in Kentish, they became /e/ and /eː/.) /yː/ may have existed in learned speech in loanwords from Old French, also spelled u , but, as it merged with /iw/, becoming /juː/ in Modern English, rather than /iː/, it can be assumed that /iw/ was the vernacular ...
By the late 1400s, the choice of spelling between sz and ss was usually based on the sound's position in the word rather than etymology: sz ( ſz ) tended to be used in word final position: uſz (Middle High German: ûz, German: aus), -nüſz (Middle High German: -nüss(e), German: -nis); ss ( ſſ ) tended to be used when the sound occurred ...
Yod (, i with a Semitistic aleph instead of the dot, both yod and alef being considered possible sound values in the 19th century). [ 5 ] Although three Egyptological and Ugariticist letters were proposed in August 2000, [ 6 ] it was not until 2008 ( Unicode 5.1 ) two of the three letters were encoded: aleph and ayin (minor and capital).
ff , which may be written as the typographic ligature ff , is used in English and Cornish [4] for the same sound as single f , /f/. The doubling is used to indicate that the preceding vowel is (historically) short, or for etymological reasons, in latinisms .