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The Fjord is strong enough for heavy work, such as ploughing fields or hauling wood, yet light and agile enough to be a good riding and driving horse. It is also sure-footed in the mountains. It is common at Norwegian riding and therapeutic schools , as its generally mild temperament and small size make it suitable for children and disabled ...
Occasionally, j represents its original /j/ sound, as in Hallelujah and fjord. In words of Spanish origin, such as jalapeño, English speakers usually pronounce j as the voiceless glottal fricative / h /, an approximation of the Spanish pronunciation of j (usually transcribed as a voiceless velar fricative , although some varieties of Spanish ...
This type of sound is more properly termed a fjord (or fiord). The sounds in Fiordland, New Zealand, have been formed this way. A sound generally connotes a protected anchorage. It can be part of most large islands. In the more general northern European usage, a sound is a strait or the narrowest part of a strait.
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 ...
Yeísmo (Spanish pronunciation: [ɟʝeˈismo]; literally "Y-ism") is a distinctive feature of certain dialects of the Spanish language, characterized by the loss of the traditional palatal lateral approximant phoneme /ʎ/ ⓘ (written ll ) and its merger into the phoneme /ʝ/ ⓘ (written y ).
(The Spanish word for drum, tambor, although similar, actually derives from Arabic tabl). In Cuba and Latin America, timbales (timpani) were adapted into pailas , which is the name given to various Spanish metallic bowls and pans used as cookware (see paila ).
“In the past, you had many different lineages of horses,” said Pablo Librado, an evolutionary biologist at the Spanish National Research Council in Barcelona and co-author of the new study.
Howe Sound's mouth at the Strait of Georgia is situated between West Vancouver and the Sunshine Coast. The sound is triangular, opening to the southwest into the Strait of Georgia, and extends 42 km (26 mi) northeast to its head at Squamish. There are several islands in the sound, three of which are large and mountainous in their own right.