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Paella is a Valencian word that means frying pan, [13] [14] [15] from which the dish gets its name. [14] [15] Valencian speakers use the word paella for all pans, including the traditional shallow pan used for cooking the homonym dish. [15] The pan is made of polished or coated steel with two side handles. [16]
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.
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