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  2. List of Latin-script digraphs - Wikipedia

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    In words, mostly of Latin origin, where ä and u are separated by a syllable boundary, it represents /ɛ.ʊ/, e.g. Matthäus (a German form for Matthew). aw is used in English in ways that parallel English au , though it appears more often at the end of a word. In Cornish, it represents /aʊ/ or /æʊ/.

  3. -ey - Wikipedia

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    The suffix-ey can appear in the English language: from Dutch / Scottish origin, as a diminutive like -ie or simply -y , with several other values from Old Norse , in placenames with the meaning of " island ", as in Jersey , Guernsey , Alderney , or Caldey

  4. List of generic forms in place names in the British Isles

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    kil, [5] Cil SG, I, W monastic cell, old church, nook, corner Kilmarnock, Killead, Kilkenny, Kilgetty, Cil-y-coed, Kilburn: prefix anglicised from Cill: kin [5] SG, I head Kincardine, Kinallen: prefix anglicised from Ceann. Cognate of C, P and W pen and in some place names, may represent a Gaelicisation of the C and P form. [2] king OE/ON king ...

  5. Collins Scrabble Words - Wikipedia

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    Collins Scrabble Words (CSW, formerly SOWPODS) is the word list used in English-language tournament Scrabble in most countries except the US, Thailand and Canada. [1] The term SOWPODS is an anagram of the two abbreviations OSPD (Official Scrabble Players Dictionary) and OSW (Official Scrabble Words), these being the original two official dictionaries used in various parts of the world at the time.

  6. Tzere - Wikipedia

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    The letter aleph (א) is the mater lectionis after tzere in the middle or the end of the word when it is a part of the root: מוֹצֵא ([moˈtse], finding m.), מוֹצֵאת ([moˈtset], finding f.). The letter he (ה) is very rarely used as a mater lectionis for [e] in the middle of the word.

  7. American and British English spelling differences - Wikipedia

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    In Canada, the -ize ending is more common, although the Ontario Public School Spelling Book [65] spelled most words in the -ize form, but allowed for duality with a page insert as late as the 1970s, noting that, although the -ize spelling was in fact the convention used in the OED, the choice to spell such words in the -ise form was a matter of ...

  8. Is there already a College Football Playoff controversy ...

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    The No. 5 seed, for now, projects to be the Big Ten championship game loser, likely Oregon or Ohio State, the two top-ranked teams in the nation. Before any decision from the committee, though ...

  9. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    Second, medical roots generally go together according to language, i.e., Greek prefixes occur with Greek suffixes and Latin prefixes with Latin suffixes. Although international scientific vocabulary is not stringent about segregating combining forms of different languages, it is advisable when coining new words not to mix different lingual roots.