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A single letter may even fill multiple pronunciation-marking roles simultaneously. For example, in the word ace, e marks not only the change of a from /æ/ to /eɪ/, but also of c from /k/ to /s/. In the word vague, e marks the long a sound, but u keeps the g hard rather than soft.
The following is a handy reference for editors, listing various common spelling differences between national varieties of English. Please note: If you are not familiar with a spelling, please do some research before changing it – it may be your misunderstanding rather than a mistake, especially in the case of American and British English spelling differences.
v is the only letter that cannot be used to form an English two-letter word in the British [4] and Australian [5] versions of the game of Scrabble. It is one of only two letters (the other being c ) that cannot be used this way in the American version. [6] [7] v is also the only letter in the English language that is never silent. [8]
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(Although u was often used interchangeably with v, and the variant "Evovae" is occasionally used, the v in these cases would still be a vowel.) The longest words with no repeated letters are subdermatoglyphic, dermatoglyphics, and uncopyrightable. [31] The longest word whose letters are in alphabetical order is the eight-letter Aegilops, a
you all would not have (colloquial/Southern American English) y’all’re: you all are (colloquial/Southern American English) y’all’ren’t: you all are not (colloquial/Southern American English) y’at: you at yes’m: yes madam / yes ma’am y'ever: have you ever y’know: you know yessir: yes sir you’d: you had / you would you’dn ...
The sounds /w/ (spelled V ) and /b/ (spelled B ) of Classical Latin developed into the voiced bilabial fricative /β/ between vowels in Early Medieval Latin. Therefore, V no longer adequately represented the voiced labial-velar approximant sound /w/ of Germanic phonology. A letter W appearing in the coat of arms of Vyborg
The word carburetor comes from the French carbure meaning "carbide". [110] [111] In the UK, the word is spelled either carburettor or carburetter and pronounced / ˌ k ɑːr b j ʊ ˈ r ɛ t ər / or / ˈ k ɑːr b ə r ɛ t ər /. In the US, the word is spelled carburetor and pronounced / ˈ k ɑːr b ə r eɪ t ər /. charivari: shivaree ...