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The following pronunciation respelling key is used in some Wikipedia articles to respell the pronunciations of English words. It does not use special symbols or diacritics apart from the schwa (ə), which is used for the first sound in the word "about". See documentation for {} for examples and instructions on using the template.
Shaking beef or bo luc lac (Vietnamese: bò lúc lắc, French: bœuf lôc lac) is a Vietnamese dish that consists of beef that has been cut into small cubes, marinated with soy sauce, fish sauce and oyster sauce, then sauteed in a wok with red onion and pepper before being served on a bed of fresh lettuce with slices of tomato and cucumber.
help (lah) – please, do lend me a hand by desisting from whatever it is you are doing; help me out here. E.g. "Help lah, stop hitting on my sister." (Please, stop flirting with my sister.) ice cream – not up to par or expectation. E.g. "Wah a simple task you also fail, you damn ice-cream sia." jam – can also mean traffic congestion. A ...
Lah' also occurs frequently with "Yah" and "No" (hence "Yah lah" and "No lah"), resulting in a less brusque sound, thus facilitating the flow of conversation. It is also possible that Lah comes from Cantonese. In Cantonese, Lah is placed at the end of a sentence in imperatives making it sound more like a request than an order.
That is partially systematic; just as the difference in pronunciation between chien [ʃjẽɪ̯̃] (masc.) and chienne [ʃjɛn] (fem.) is the presence or absence of a final consonant, ambiguous words ending in a consonant (such as job (/dʒɔb/)) are often considered to be feminine.
Normally, pronunciation is given only for the subject of the article in its lead section. For non-English words and names, use the pronunciation key for the appropriate language. If a common English rendering of the non-English name exists (Venice, Nikita Khrushchev), its pronunciation, if necessary, should be indicated before the non-English one.
The entries are sorted according to the Hebrew alphabet. Prefixes indicating prepositions, conjunctions and articles (such as ב, ד, ה, ו, כ, ל, ש ) have generally been removed, with the following exceptions:
Chien Wen-pin (簡文彬; born 1971), Taiwanese conductor; Colleen V. Chien (born 1973), American law professor; Hank Chien (born 1974), American plastic surgeon who formerly held a world record score in the video game Donkey Kong; Chien Shan-hua (錢善華; fl. 1978–present), Taiwanese musicologist; Alec Chien (fl. 1982–present), Hong Kong ...