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  2. Chalkboard scraping - Wikipedia

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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).

  3. List of English–Spanish interlingual homographs - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Blackboard - Wikipedia

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    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 Blackboards were originally made of smooth, thin sheets of black or dark grey slate stone.

  5. Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

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    Spanish: ñam: ñam ñam: glu glu glu, glup: glup: Swedish: nam-nam: nam nam: glugg glugg, klunk klunk: gulp: Tamil: கருக்கு முறுக்கு (karukk murukk) (mainly used to indicate crunching) Thai: งั่บ (ngap), ง่ำ (ngam) ง่ำ ง่ำ (ngam ngam) อึ้ก (uek), เอื้อก (ueak ...

  6. Ñ - Wikipedia

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    Ñ or ñ (Spanish: eñe, ⓘ), is a letter of the modern Latin alphabet, formed by placing a tilde (also referred to as a virgulilla in Spanish, in order to differentiate it from other diacritics, which are also called tildes) on top of an upper- or lower-case n . [1]

  7. You'll want to listen to this Spanish soccer announcer yell ...

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    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.

  8. Hyperforeignism - Wikipedia

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    The South American beverage, mate, is frequently spelled maté in English, adding an acute accent (as in 'café') to indicate that the word has two syllables and is not pronounced like the English word mate (/ ˈ m eɪ t /). In Spanish, such an accent would shift the stress and change the meaning of the word (maté meaning "I killed" in Spanish).

  9. The Indigo Girls say 'Barbie' 'hit the nail on the head' on ...

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    Soon, their legacy will be explored in a documentary, "Indigo Girls: It’s Only Life After All," out in theaters on April 10. It's title is fittingly inspired by the lyrics of "Closer to Fine."