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  2. List of animal sounds - Wikipedia

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    Certain words in the English language represent animal sounds: the noises and vocalizations of particular animals, especially noises used by animals for communication. The words can be used as verbs or interjections in addition to nouns , and many of them are also specifically onomatopoeic .

  3. List of onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 January 2025. This is a list of onomatopoeias, i.e. words that imitate, resemble, or suggest the source of the sound that they describe. For more information, see the linked articles. Human vocal sounds Achoo, Atishoo, the sound of a sneeze Ahem, a sound made to clear the throat or to draw attention ...

  4. Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah - Wikipedia

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    The nyah-nyah tune features a descending minor third. Play ⓘ "Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah" is the lexigraphic representation of a common children's chant.It is a rendering of one common vocalization for a six-note musical figure [note 1] that is usually associated with children and found in many European-derived cultures, and which is often used in taunting.

  5. Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

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    This article should specify the language of its non-English content, using {{}}, {{transliteration}} for transliterated languages, and {{}} for phonetic transcriptions, with an appropriate ISO 639 code.

  6. Phonics - Wikipedia

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    Reading by using phonics is often referred to as decoding words, sounding-out words or using print-to-sound relationships.Since phonics focuses on the sounds and letters within words (i.e. sublexical), [13] it is often contrasted with whole language (a word-level-up philosophy for teaching reading) and a compromise approach called balanced literacy (the attempt to combine whole language and ...

  7. Ghoti - Wikipedia

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    [4] The first confirmed use of ghoti is in a letter dated 11 December 1855 from Charles Ollier to Leigh Hunt. On the third page of the letter, Ollier explains that his son William, who was 31, had "hit upon a new method of spelling Fish." Ollier then demonstrates the rationale, "So that ghoti is fish." [5] [4] [6]

  8. Why is Simone Biles called the GOAT? What to know after ... - AOL

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    "Congrats to the U.S. Women's Gymnastics team for winning gold and to the GOAT @Simone_Biles for becoming the most decorated American gymnast in history!" Obama wrote on X.

  9. Sound correspondences between English accents - Wikipedia

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    The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) can be used to represent sound correspondences among various accents and dialects of the English language. These charts give a diaphoneme for each sound, followed by its realization in different dialects. The symbols for the diaphonemes are given in bold, followed by their most common phonetic values.