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Doig was born in White Sulphur Springs, Montana [5] to Charles "Charlie" Doig, ranch hand and Berneta Ringer Doig. [5] After the death of his mother on his sixth birthday, he was raised briefly (1947 - 1949) by his father and his father's second wife, Fern White, who had been hired as a ranch cook, and later by his father and his maternal grandmother, Elizabeth "Bessie" Ringer.
Bucking the Sun is a novel by American author Ivan Doig, published in 1996. It is the fourth book in Doig's Two Medicine Country series. [ 1 ] The title refers to "working against the glare of sunrise or sunset".
CMUdict can be used as a training corpus for building statistical grapheme-to-phoneme (g2p) models [1] that will generate pronunciations for words not yet included in the dictionary. The most recent release is 0.7b; it contains over 134,000 entries. An interactive lookup version is available. [2]
In particular, for people learning English, the association between the written name and its sound can be invaluable, especially where the pronunciation cannot be deduced easily. Even native speakers can benefit: I used to think Havant 's first syllable contained a long "a" until I heard a railway station announcement.
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Diagram of the changes in English vowels during the Great Vowel Shift. The Great Vowel Shift was a series of pronunciation changes in the vowels of the English language that took place primarily between the 1400s and 1600s [1] (the transition period from Middle English to Early Modern English), beginning in southern England and today having influenced effectively all dialects of English.
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Doig is a surname originating from Scotland. This is an anglicised form of the Scottish Gaelic name Mac Gille Doig - a compound of the elements "mac" meaning "son of", "gille", a servant, plus the personal name Doig, a short form of Cadog.