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Christmas or Winter Break – Varies in length per school; usually starts on the third Saturday in December and ends a day or two after New Year's Day (sometimes the first Monday after New Year's Day), unless New Year's Day falls on a Sunday in which case the first Monday (January 2) is the official holiday and schools may not begin until ...
[citation needed] American styles of notation have also influenced customs of date notation in Canada, creating confusion in international commerce. [ 1 ] In traditional American usage, dates are written in the month–day–year order (e.g. February 12, 2025) with a comma before and after the year if it is not at the end of a sentence [ 2 ...
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The distinction between unstressed /ɪ/ and /ə/ is lost in GA, while in RP it is retained. Thus in RP, edition /ɪˈdɪʃən/ and addition /əˈdɪʃən/ are not homophones. In GA, flapping is common: when either a /t/ or a /d/ occurs between a sonorant phoneme and an unstressed vowel phoneme, it is realized as an alveolar-flap allophone [ɾ].
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So there is a good quality difference between short a and short e. Bed and bad cannot be confused. But in American English, the short a seems to be more closed, reaching (in my ears) the same quality as the short e. What I hear is: bed [bɛd] and bad [bɛːd]. I don't hear any quality difference, only length difference.
The American flag would “for the first time ever during an Inauguration of a future President, be at half mast,” he added. “Nobody wants to see this, and no American can be happy about it ...