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  2. Crazy English - Wikipedia

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    Since Crazy English highlights various aspects of learning a language without using any traditional ways like learning grammar or reading textbooks, pronunciation is the backbone of this methodology. Crazy English follows the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) as its standard for giving pronunciation notation.

  3. Li Yang (educator) - Wikipedia

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    Li Yang (simplified Chinese: 李 阳; traditional Chinese: 李陽; pinyin: Lǐ Yáng; born 1969 in Changzhou, Jiangsu) is a Chinese educator and language instructor.He is the creator of Crazy English, an unorthodox method of teaching English.

  4. The word is a compound word, and said by Richard Lederer in his book Crazy English to be made up of these words: super- "above", cali- "beauty", ...

  5. List of disability-related terms with negative connotations

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    Crazy [6] [16] [21] [22] Crazy cat lady Used of mentally ill and neurotic women, particularly single women and spinsters who hoard cats. [23] Cretin [citation needed] Cripple "A person with a physical or mobility impairment". Its shortened form ("crip") has been reclaimed by some people with disabilities as a positive identity. [6] [7] [17] [24]

  6. Richard Lederer - Wikipedia

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    He has written more than 50 books, including Anguished English books starting in 1987, Get Thee to a Punnery (1988), Crazy English (1989), [6] The Miracle of Language (1992), Amazing Words (2011), and The Joy of Names (2018).

  7. 20 iconic slang words from Black Twitter that shaped pop culture

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    African American Vernacular English, or Black American English, is one of America's greatest sources of linguistic creativity, and Black Twitter especially has played a pivotal role in how words ...

  8. Place names considered unusual - Wikipedia

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    Fucking, Austria.The village was renamed on 1 January 2021 to "Fugging" [1] Hell, Norway.The hillside sign is visible in the background in the left corner. Place names considered unusual can include those which are also offensive words, inadvertently humorous (especially if mispronounced) or highly charged words, [2] as well as place names of unorthodox spelling and pronunciation, including ...

  9. Most common words in English - Wikipedia

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    Some lists of common words distinguish between word forms, while others rank all forms of a word as a single lexeme (the form of the word as it would appear in a dictionary). For example, the lexeme be (as in to be ) comprises all its conjugations ( is , was , am , are , were , etc.), and contractions of those conjugations. [ 5 ]