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OTCWL2016, [d] a minor update in 2016, added over 1,000 nine-letter words. The 2018 update NWL2018 [e] added over 3,000 words, including additions to OSPD6 and MWCD, and ten-letter words from COD2. It was produced by NASPA in collaboration with Merriam-Webster, and under its own copyright for the first time.
The equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is j, and in the Americanist phonetic notation it is y . Because the English name of the letter J, jay, starts with [dʒ] (voiced postalveolar affricate), the approximant is sometimes instead called yod (jod), as in the phonological history terms yod-dropping and yod-coalescence.
There is a non-IPA letter, U+0235 ȵ LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH CURL; ȵ ( n , plus the curl found in the symbols for alveolo-palatal sibilant fricatives ɕ, ʑ ), which is used especially in Sinological circles. The alveolo-palatal nasal is commonly described as palatal; it is often unclear whether a language has a true palatal or not.
This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends that begin with the letter J. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as if it were a word, e.g., SARS = severe acute respiratory syndrome , pronounced to rhyme with cars
AAW An acronym for anti-aircraft warfare. aback (of a sail) Filled by the wind on the opposite side to the one normally used to move the vessel forward.On a square-rigged ship, any of the square sails can be braced round to be aback, the purpose of which may be to reduce speed (such as when a ship-of-the-line is keeping station with others), to heave to, or to assist moving the ship's head ...
Taxidermy altered to resemble a "jackalope" . Jackalope – Rabbit with antlers; Jack Frost - Personified of ice, winter and snow; Jack-In-Irons – Malevolent giant; Jack-o'-lantern (Medieval folklore) – Vegetal lantern
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In broad transcription, the symbol for the palatal approximant, j , may be used for the sake of simplicity. The voiced palatal fricative is a very rare sound, occurring in only 7 of the 317 languages surveyed by the original UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database [ citation needed ] .