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  2. I before E except after C - Wikipedia

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    I Before E (Except After C): Old-School Ways To Remember Stuff was a miscellany released in the UK for the Christmas 2007 "stocking filler" market, [43] which sold well. [44] "I Before E Except After C" is a song on Yazoo's 1982 album Upstairs at Eric's. The Jackson 5's 1970 hit "ABC" has the lyric "I before E except after C".

  3. Consonance and dissonance - Wikipedia

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    The opposition between consonance and dissonance can be made in different contexts: In acoustics or psychophysiology, the distinction may be objective.In modern times, it usually is based on the perception of harmonic partials of the sounds considered, to such an extent that the distinction really holds only in the case of harmonic sounds (i.e. sounds with harmonic partials).

  4. English phonology - Wikipedia

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    The following table shows the 24 consonant phonemes found in most dialects of English, plus /x/, whose distribution is more limited. Fortis consonants are always voiceless, aspirated in syllable onset (except in clusters beginning with /s/ or /ʃ/), and sometimes also glottalized to an extent in syllable coda (most likely to occur with /t/, see T-glottalization), while lenis consonants are ...

  5. Round (music) - Wikipedia

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    "Up and Down This World Goes Round", three voice round by Matthew Locke. [1] Play ⓘ. A round (also called a perpetual canon [canon perpetuus], round about or infinite canon) is a musical composition, a limited type of canon, in which multiple voices sing exactly the same melody, but with each voice beginning at different times so that different parts of the melody coincide in the different ...

  6. Phonological history of English close front vowels - Wikipedia

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    Until the 17th century, words like happy could end with the vowel of my (originally [iː], but it was diphthongised in the Great Vowel Shift), which alternated with a short i sound. (Many words spelt -ee , -ea , -ey once had the vowel of day ; there is still alternation between that vowel and the happy vowel in words such as Sunday and Monday ...

  7. Louder (DJ Fresh song) - Wikipedia

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    It was released on 3 July 2011 on Ministry of Sound. "Louder" is considered an important landmark for dubstep music as it was the first of the genre to reach number one on the UK Singles Chart. [1] The song was featured on the soundtrack to Studio Liverpool's Wipeout 2048 and used as the promotional theme for Fox8's reality programme Cricket ...

  8. Find out which 'Sound of Music' song Julie Andrews hated - AOL

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    During a sit-down with Diane Sawyer in honor of "The Sound of Music's" 50th anniversary earlier this year, star Julie Andrews revealed she has many fond memories of making the classic film.

  9. Phonological development - Wikipedia

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    Of course, the reason why children need to learn the sound distinctions of their language is because then they also have to learn the meaning associated with those different sounds. Young children have a remarkable ability to learn meanings for the words they extract from the speech they are exposed to, i.e., to map meaning onto the sounds.