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  2. Crosswordese - Wikipedia

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    Crosswordese is the group of words frequently found in US crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation. The words are usually short, three to five letters, with letter combinations which crossword constructors find useful in the creation of crossword puzzles, such as words that start or end with vowels (or both), abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual ...

  3. List of English words containing Q not followed by U

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    QWERTY, one of the few native English words with Q not followed by U, is derived from the first six letters of a standard keyboard layout. In English, the letter Q is almost always followed immediately by the letter U, e.g. quiz, quarry, question, squirrel. However, there are some exceptions.

  4. Cha (Indic) - Wikipedia

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    Cha does not form ligatures or other combining forms, and Cha conjuncts can only be formed with post-base forms of other letter or an explicit candrakkala. Texts written with the modern reformed Malayalam orthography, put̪iya lipi , may favor more regular conjunct forms than older texts in paḻaya lipi , due to changes undertaken in the 1970s ...

  5. Longest words - Wikipedia

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    The free OpenTaal dictionary, [37] which has been certified by the Dutch Language Union (the official Dutch language institute) and is included in many open-source applications, contains the following longest words, which are 40 letters long: vervoerders­aansprakelijkheids­verzekering, "carriers' liability insurance";

  6. Etymology of tea - Wikipedia

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    The different words for tea fall into two main groups: "te-derived" and "cha-derived" (Cantonese and Mandarin). [2]Most notably through the Silk Road; [25] global regions with a history of land trade with central regions of Imperial China (such as North Asia, Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East) pronounce it along the lines of 'cha', whilst most global maritime regions ...

  7. List of Unicode characters - Wikipedia

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    Letters: Lowercase. U+00F8 ø 248 0303 0270 ø Latin Small Letter O with stroke 0184 U+00F9 ù 249 0303 0271 ù Latin Small Letter U with grave 0185

  8. CHA - Wikipedia

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    Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Hong Kong–based online English literary journal; Chamorro language, ISO 639-2 code; Cha (Indic), a glyph in the Brahmic family of scripts; Cha., an abbreviation of the name Charles; Chicago Housing Authority; Chunta Aragonesista (Aragonese Council), a political party of Aragon, Spain; China Telecom (NYSE: CHA)

  9. List of English words of Chinese origin - Wikipedia

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    Words of Chinese origin have entered European languages, including English. Most of these were direct loanwords from various varieties of Chinese.However, Chinese words have also entered indirectly via other languages, particularly Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese, that have all used Chinese characters at some point and contain a large number of Chinese loanwords.