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"Que Será, Será (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)" [a] is a song written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans and first published in 1955. [4] Doris Day introduced it in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), [5] singing it as a cue to their onscreen kidnapped son. [4]
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".
An archetypal example of an overt Scotticism is "Och aye the noo", which translates as "Oh yes, just now". This phrase is often used in parody by non-Scots and although the phrases " Och aye " and " the noo " are in common use by Scots separately, they are rarely used together. [ 6 ]
(Especially in the U.S., they can also stand in place of initials in people's given names, e.g. Jay Gould, Dee Brown and Mary Kay Ash.) At the cost of ambiguity, many of those letters sound like, and are spelled like, common English words, e.g. "eye" as in Eye Street (I Street) in Washington, D.C. (spelled out to avoid confusion with the Arabic ...
"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" (/ ˌ s uː p ər ˌ k æ l ɪ ˌ f r æ dʒ ɪ ˌ l ɪ s t ɪ k ˌ ɛ k s p i ˌ æ l ɪ ˈ d oʊ ʃ ə s / ⓘ SOO-pər-KAL-ih ...
A pronunciation respelling for English is a notation used to convey the pronunciation of words in the English language, which do not have a phonemic orthography (i.e. the spelling does not reliably indicate pronunciation).
"Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay" is a vaudeville and music hall song first performed by the 1880s. It was included in Henry J. Sayers' 1891 revue Tuxedo in Boston , Massachusetts. The song became widely known in the 1892 version sung by Lottie Collins in London music halls , and also became popular in France.
Ay ay ay ay" is the refrain of popular Mexican song "Cielito Lindo". Ay ay ay ay and similar phrases may also refer to: "Limerick" (song) , a traditional drinking song with a phonetically similar refrain