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Thea Muldoon (1927–2015), New Zealander first lady; Thea Musgrave, Scottish composer; Thea Porter (1927–2000), British fashion designer; Thea Proctor (1879–1966), Australian artist; Thea Rasche (1899–1971), German pilot; Thea de Roos-van Rooden, Dutch historian and politician; Thea Sharrock, English theatre director; Thea Slatyer ...
Throughout Wikipedia, the pronunciation of words is indicated using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). The following tables list the IPA symbols used for English words and pronunciations. Please note that several of these symbols are used in ways that are specific to Wikipedia, and differ from those used by dictionaries.
Thea may refer to: Thea (name), a given name; Ancient Greek term for goddess, including an alternative spelling of Theia; Thea, the former name of the tea plant genus, now included in Camellia; Thea, a village in the multiple unit Messatida, Achaea, Greece; Thea (award), the annual award from the Themed Entertainment Association
Caffeine and its precursors theobromine and theophylline are only found in sect. Thea and are not found in other species of Camellia or other Theaceae. Caffeine content in the tea bush makes up 2.5-4% of the leaf's dry weight, and this high content of catechins and caffeine in the tea bush is the result of artificial selection by humans for ...
In Modern English, the short form has generally become standard, but the spelling ea reflects the formerly-longer pronunciation. [1] The words that were affected include several ending in d, such as bread, head, spread, and various others, including breath, weather, and threat.
The following table shows the 24 consonant phonemes found in most dialects of English, plus /x/, whose distribution is more limited. Fortis consonants are always voiceless, aspirated in syllable onset (except in clusters beginning with /s/ or /ʃ/), and sometimes also glottalized to an extent in syllable coda (most likely to occur with /t/, see T-glottalization), while lenis consonants are ...
Words in this category may therefore have ended up with a variety of pronunciations in modern standard English: /æ/ (where the short A pronunciation survived), /ɑː/ (where the pronunciation with lengthened A was adopted), /ɔː/ (where the normal development of the AU diphthong was followed), and /eɪ/ (where the A was lengthened before the ...
Early accounts gave her a primal origin, said to be the eldest daughter of Gaia (Earth) and Uranus (Sky). [4] She is thus the sister of the Titans (Oceanus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, Coeus, Themis, Rhea, Phoebe, Tethys, Mnemosyne, Cronus, and sometimes of Dione), the Cyclopes, the Hecatoncheires, the Giants, the Meliae, the Erinyes, and is the half-sister of Aphrodite (in some versions ...