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  2. Liquorice (confectionery) - Wikipedia

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    Liquorice (Commonwealth English) or licorice (American English; see spelling differences; IPA: / ˈ l ɪ k ər ɪ ʃ,-ɪ s / LIK-ər-ish, -⁠iss) [1] is a confection usually flavoured and coloured black with the extract of the roots of the liquorice plant Glycyrrhiza glabra. A variety of liquorice sweets are produced around the world.

  3. American and British English pronunciation differences

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    Differences in pronunciation between American English (AmE) and British English (BrE) can be divided into . differences in accent (i.e. phoneme inventory and realisation).See differences between General American and Received Pronunciation for the standard accents in the United States and Britain; for information about other accents see regional accents of English.

  4. Liquorice - Wikipedia

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    Liquorice (Commonwealth English) or licorice (American English; see spelling differences; IPA: / ˈ l ɪ k ər ɪ ʃ,-ɪ s / LIK-ər-ish, -⁠iss) [5] [6] is the common name of Glycyrrhiza glabra, a flowering plant of the bean family Fabaceae, from the root of which a sweet, aromatic flavouring is extracted.

  5. Jabberwocky - Wikipedia

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    Pronounce 'slithy' as if it were the two words, 'sly, thee': make the 'g' hard in 'gyre' and 'gimble': and pronounce 'rath' to rhyme with 'bath'." [ 20 ] In the Preface to The Hunting of the Snark , Carroll wrote, "[Let] me take this opportunity of answering a question that has often been asked me, how to pronounce 'slithy toves'.

  6. Talk:Liquorice - Wikipedia

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    I request you write this article in AmE and change the article title to "Licorice". (unsigned IP) Not done - the article is designated for British Oxford English (top of this talk page). See Etymology. A 2011 discussion about the spelling is in Talk:Liquorice/Archive 1. Spelling differences are part of WP:ENGVAR.

  7. International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The official chart of the IPA, revised in 2020. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script.It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standard written representation for the sounds of speech. [1]

  8. Talk:Liquorice (confectionery) - Wikipedia

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    4 "Red licorice" 3 comments. 5 Mentioned on TV. 1 comment. 6 Carbon black. 4 comments ...

  9. The King's English - Wikipedia

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    The King's English is a book on English usage and grammar. It was written by the brothers Henry Watson Fowler and Francis George Fowler and published in 1906; [ 1 ] it thus predates by twenty years Modern English Usage , which was written by Henry alone after Francis's death in 1918.