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Scraping a chalkboard (also known as a blackboard) with one's fingernails produces a sound and feeling which most people find extremely irritating. The basis of the innate reaction to the sound has been studied in the field of psychoacoustics (the branch of psychology concerned with the perception of sound and its physiological effects).
A blackboard or a chalkboard is a reusable writing surface on which text or drawings are made with sticks of calcium sulphate or calcium carbonate, known, when used for this purpose, as chalk. Blackboards were originally made of smooth, thin sheets of black or dark grey slate stone.
The cognates in the table below share meanings in English and Spanish, but have different pronunciation. Some words entered Middle English and Early Modern Spanish indirectly and at different times. For example, a Latinate word might enter English by way of Old French, but enter Spanish directly from Latin. Such differences can introduce ...
By JOHN DORN Carli Lloyd's three-goal explosion in the first half of the Women's World Cup Final on Sunday was one of the greatest sports accomplishments we've seen in recent history.
Spanish yeyé signer Massiel won the 1968 Eurovision Song Contest with La, la, la. Due to the wide-ranging vocal styles used in popular music, occasionally songs have been mistakenly categorized as having non-lexical vocables, when in fact the singers are performing actual lyrics rendered partially (or completely) unintelligible to the ear of ...
SPANISH SALON SkyShowtime has announced that production is underway for its new comedy series “Nails,” its third original series commissioned in Spain. “Nails” tells the story of four ...
The "Alice, Darling" star looked back at her past movie roles in a new video. Anna Kendrick was shocked by the success of her 'Pitch Perfect' cup song: 'It's a weird nails on chalkboard thing for ...
The grito is sometimes used as part of the official remembrance of the Shout of Dolores, during the celebration of Mexican Independence Day. [1]The grito mexicano has patriotic connotations.