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Ghoti Hook is a 1990s Christian punk band. Ghoti has been used to test speech synthesizers. [10] The Speech! allophone -based speech synthesizer software for the BBC Micro was tweaked to pronounce ghoti as fish. [11] Examination of the code reveals the string GHOTI used to identify the special case.
Sherpa (also Sharpa, Sherwa, or Xiaerba) is a Tibetic language spoken in Nepal and the Indian state of Sikkim, mainly by the Sherpa. The majority speakers of the Sherpa language live in the Khumbu region of Nepal, spanning from the Chinese (Tibetan) border in the east to the Bhotekosi River in the west. [ 3 ]
The Sherpas (Standard Tibetan: ཤར་པ་, romanized: shar pa) are one of the Tibetan ethnic groups native to the most mountainous regions of Nepal and Tibetan Autonomous Region of China. The term sherpa derives from the Tibetan-language words shar (ཤར, 'east') and pa (པ 'people'), which refer to their geographical origin in eastern ...
Officials are calling Friday's avalanche on Mount Everest the deadliest day on the mountain in history. At least 12 Sherpa guides were killed. According to Al Jazeera, investigators say the Sherpa ...
Aleuts developed in one of the harshest climates in the world, and learned to create and protect warmth. Both men and women wore parkas that extended below the knees. The women wore the skin of seal or sea-otter, and the men wore bird skin parkas, the feathers turned in or out depending on the weather.
Lethrinus nebulosus, the spangled emperor, green snapper, morwong, north-west snapper, sand bream, sand snapper, sixteen-pounder, sharie, sheri and yellow sweetlip, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Lethrinidae, the emperors and emperor breams. This species is found the Indo-West Pacific region.
Help. : IPA/Yiddish. < Help:IPA. This is the for transcriptions of Yiddish on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Yiddish in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not ...
Thukpa ( Tibetan: ཐུག་པ ; IPA: /tʰu (k̚)ˀ˥˥.pə˥˥/ ) is a Tibetan noodle soup, which originated in the eastern part of Tibet. [ 1] Amdo thukpa, especially thenthuk, is a variant among the Indians, especially Ladakhis and the Sikkimese. [ 2] Thukpa can be prepared in both vegetarian and non-vegetarian variations; the most ...