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cwtch (a hiding place or cubby hole) is also from Welsh (albeit a recent word influenced by English, and used almost exclusively in the variant of English spoken in Wales, not in standard English), and crwth and cwtch are the longest English dictionary words without a, e, i, o, u, y according to Collins Dictionary. [9]
Adriano Celentano's 1972 song "Prisencolinensinainciusol" is sung in gibberish that sounds as American English. Jack Black uses non-lexical vocables whilst singing as Tenacious D. "Da Da Da" by German group Trio uses the phrase "da da da" throughout the song. The chorus to the Simon and Garfunkel hit "The Boxer" contains the repeated phrase ...
boing, -s / ˈ-ɔɪ ŋ,-z / rhymes with doing (etymology 2), the sound made by an elastic object when struck by or striking a hard object, and toing/toings, the sound of a metallic vibration. bombed / ˈ-ɒ m d / rhymes with glommed, American slang for 'attached'. [8] cairn rhymes with bairn, a Northern English and Scottish word meaning child ...
/ ˈ æ k s ɪ z / noun pl. of axe: bases / ˈ b eɪ s ɪ z / noun plural of base / ˈ b eɪ s iː z / noun plural of basis: bass / ˈ b eɪ s / noun low in pitch / ˈ b æ s / noun a fish blessed / ˈ b l ɛ s ɪ d / adjective having divine aid / ˈ b l ɛ s t / verb past tense of bless: bow / ˈ b oʊ / noun a stringed weapon, or the ...
The song includes the sound of a touch-tone telephone number being dialed near the beginning and ending of the song. Those numbers were an unlisted phone number at CBS Records in Manhattan ("area code 212" stated in the song), and the number of the White House switchboard (in the similar-sounding area code 202).
A word can never end with the ɔ sound. If there is an 'অ' in a word followed by the i sound, or an u sound, then it is pronounced as o, otherwise it is pronounced as ɔ. For example, অনুবাদ ( onubad )( translation ) and অনেক (ɔnek) ( many) begin with the same letter being pronounced differently due to the presence of 'u ...
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The consonant sounds represented by the letters W and Y in English (/w/ and /j/ as in went /wɛnt/ and yes /jɛs/) are referred to as semi-vowels (or glides) by linguists, however this is a description that applies to the sounds represented by the letters and not to the letters themselves.