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In the word דֹּאר , the Biblical Hebrew spelling of the name Dor, the alef is a mater lectionis, and in traditional typography the holam is written above the alef 's right arm. In the word דֹּאַר ( /ˈdo.aʁ/ , "mail"), the alef is a consonant (a glottal stop ), under which appears the vowel pataḥ , so the ḥolam is written ...
Despite the name it does not correspond to an aleph in cognate Semitic words, where the single "reed" hieroglyph is found instead. The phoneme is commonly transliterated by a symbol composed of two half-rings, in Unicode (as of version 5.1, in the Latin Extended-D range) encoded at U+A722 Ꜣ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER EGYPTOLOGICAL ALEF and U+A723 ...
In "Queen Anne's Rain", Secombe, on being asked what he would do with an OBE, replies that he would sing it, and does so to the tune of "Shenandoah". Greenslade responds by singing "Oh OBE, the pipes, the pipes are frozen" to the tune of the " Londonderry Air ".
The sound has since been used in over 38,000 videos on TikTok. "Me and my friends joking about not knowing anything, knowing full well next year we'll be doctors," @rxafi said in a video
An inclusionist and a deletionist walk into a bar. The deletionist rips out half of the taps and destroys all the bottles that aren't on the top shelf. The inclusionist says not to worry and offers a case of diet soda.
“If Trump really aspires to the kind of authoritarianism that many people fear he would like to, historically, dictatorship and authoritarianism can push people into violent action,” said Mark ...
Pickle is funny. Cab is funny. Cockroach is funny – not if you get 'em, only if you say 'em. [2] [3] Richard Wiseman, a professor of the public understanding of psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, conducted a small experiment to determine whether words with a k sound were actually considered funnier than others for English speakers ...
Queen Elizabeth II’s 70-year reign gave her numerous opportunities to dispense wit and wisdom, but she started even before officially becoming queen upon her father’s sudden death in February ...