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  2. Help:IPA/Standard German - Wikipedia

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    It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Standard German in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any symbol or value without establishing consensus on the talk page first.

  3. Standard German phonology - Wikipedia

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    The phonology of Standard German is the standard pronunciation or accent of the German language. It deals with current phonology and phonetics as well as with historical developments thereof as well as the geographical variants and the influence of German dialects .

  4. List of German expressions in English - Wikipedia

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    As languages, English and German descend from the common ancestor language West Germanic and further back to Proto-Germanic; because of this, some English words are essentially identical to their German lexical counterparts, either in spelling (Hand, Sand, Finger) or pronunciation ("fish" = Fisch, "mouse" = Maus), or both (Arm, Ring); these are ...

  5. Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

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    German: mampf mampf mampf, hamm hamm, mjam schlürf, gluck schluck Gujarati: gudgud Hebrew: אָממ אָממ (amm amm) שלוּק (shluk) צחצוח (tsikhtsúakh), שקשוק (shikshúk refers to "shaking teeth") Hungarian: hamm nyam-nyam, csám-csám glu-glu, glugy-glugy sika-sika Icelandic: kjams nammi namm glúgg glúgg Indonesian: krauk ...

  6. List of shibboleths - Wikipedia

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    Tourists tend to pronounce it similarly to the name of the city in Texas, while the New York pronunciation is HOW-stun (/ ˈ h aʊ s t ən /). [ 64 ] Hull , Massachusetts, would seem to be pronounced / h ʌ l / , as in the exterior of a ship, but locals will invariably render it / h ɔː l / homophonous to "hall", as in a corridor.

  7. List of terms used for Germans - Wikipedia

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    A First World War Canadian electoral campaign poster. Hun (or The Hun) is a term that originally refers to the nomadic Huns of the Migration Period.Beginning in World War I it became an often used pejorative seen on war posters by Western Allied powers and the basis for a criminal characterization of the Germans as barbarians with no respect for civilization and humanitarian values having ...

  8. Here's the Real Meaning Behind the Black Heart Emoji

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    The black heart emoji is a simple heart emoji that is the color black instead of the usual red. When you receive a black heart emoji, it can be hard to determine what the real meaning behind the ...

  9. Sheepshead (card game) - Wikipedia

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    Two cards are dealt at a time. The most powerful trumps are as follows, Q of clubs, Q of spades, J of clubs, J of spades, J of hearts, J of diamonds, A of diamonds (fox), 10 of diamonds, K of diamonds, Q of diamonds, 9 of diamonds. The non-trump strengths are A, 10, K, Q, 9. The queen of hearts is no longer trump (it is actually a very weak card).