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  2. Contraction (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    A contraction is a shortened version of the spoken and written forms of a word, syllable, or word group, created by omission of internal letters and sounds.. In linguistic analysis, contractions should not be confused with crasis, abbreviations and initialisms (including acronyms), with which they share some semantic and phonetic functions, though all three are connoted by the term ...

  3. List of mnemonics - Wikipedia

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    Philosophy. THE LAD ZAPPA is a mnemonic for the first 11 (and most important) Ionian philosophers: T hales, H eraclitus, E mpedocles, L eucippus, A naximander, D emocritus, Z eno, A naximenes, P rotagoras, P armenides, A naxagoras .

  4. Transcription (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Software. Transcription was originally a process carried out manually, i.e. with pencil and paper, using an analogue sound recording stored on, e.g., a Compact Cassette. Nowadays, most transcription is done on computers. Recordings are usually digital audio files or video files, and transcriptions are electronic documents.

  5. Sanskrit - Wikipedia

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    Sanskrit is the sacred language of various Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions. It is used during worship in Hindu temples. In Newar Buddhism, it is used in all monasteries, while Mahayana and Tibetan Buddhist religious texts and sutras are in Sanskrit as well as vernacular languages.

  6. Hindustani grammar - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani distinguishes two genders (masculine and feminine), two noun types ( count and non-count), two numbers (singular and plural), and three cases ( nominative, oblique, and vocative ). [ 7] Nouns may be further divided into two classes based on declension, called type-I, type-II, and type-III. The basic difference between the two ...

  7. Mrs. - Wikipedia

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    Mrs. ( American English) [ 1] or Mrs ( British English; [ 2][ 3] standard English pronunciation: / ˈmɪsɪz / ⓘ MISS-iz) is a commonly used English honorific for women, usually for those who are married and who do not instead use another title or rank, such as Doctor, Professor , President, Dame, etc. In most Commonwealth countries, a full ...

  8. Clipping (morphology) - Wikipedia

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    Clipping (morphology) In linguistics, clipping, also called truncation or shortening, [ 1] is word formation by removing some segments of an existing word to create a synonym. [ 2] Clipping differs from abbreviation, which is based on a shortening of the written, rather than the spoken, form of an existing word or phrase.

  9. Hindustani orthography - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani (standardized Hindi and standardized Urdu) has been written in several different scripts. Most Hindi texts are written in the Devanagari script, which is derived from the Brāhmī script of Ancient India. Most Urdu texts are written in the Urdu alphabet, which comes from the Persian alphabet. Hindustani has been written in both scripts.