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  2. List of portmanteaus - Wikipedia

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    newscast, from news and broadcast [5] nonebrity, from nonentity and celebrity [6] reprography, from reproduce and photography [2] sitcom, from situational comedy [5] Spraycation, from vacation and spraypainting coined by the anonymous English Street artist Banksy for the title of his summer 2021 series of works "A Great British Spraycation" [7]

  3. 8-3-1 - Wikipedia

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    "8-3-1" is a song recorded by British singer Lisa Stansfield for her 2001 album, Face Up. It was written by Stansfield, her husband Ian Devaney, Richard Darbyshire from the 80's band Living in a Box and British singer Charlotte. "8-3-1" was produced by Devaney and received favorable reviews from music critics who called it the best track on the album and also the set's most obvious hit, the ...

  4. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog - Wikipedia

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    (28 letters) "Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow." (29 letters) "How vexingly quick daft zebras jump!" (30 letters) "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs." (32 letters) If abbreviations and non-dictionary words are allowed, it is possible to create a perfect pangram that uses each letter only once, such as "Mr. Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few ...

  5. Prisencolinensinainciusol - Wikipedia

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    [4] [5] Celentano, however, did not have these styles in mind when writing the song. [4] He composed "Prisencolinensinainciusol" by creating a loop of four drumbeats and improvising lyrics over the top of the loop in his recording studio. [6] The song is characterised by an E flat groove in the drum and bass guitar and riff in the horn section. [7]

  6. Letter frequency - Wikipedia

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    The California Job Case was a compartmentalized box for printing in the 19th century, sizes corresponding to the commonality of letters. The frequency of letters in text has been studied for use in cryptanalysis, and frequency analysis in particular, dating back to the Arab mathematician al-Kindi (c. AD 801–873 ), who formally developed the method (the ciphers breakable by this technique go ...

  7. Pentagraph - Wikipedia

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    A pentagraph (from the Greek: πέντε, pénte, "five" and γράφω, gráphō, "write") is a sequence of five letters used to represent a single sound (phoneme), or a combination of sounds, that do not correspond to the individual values of the letters. [1]

  8. What You Need To Know About the Letter ‘X’ in Words ... - AOL

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    In his 2012 TEDx Talk, linguist Terry Moore, PhD, shared how he traced the English use of the letter way back to the Arabic word that became “algebra” in English. Eventually, through ...

  9. List of English words without rhymes - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of English words without rhymes, called refractory rhymes—that is, a list of words in the English language that rhyme with no other English word. The word "rhyme" here is used in the strict sense, called a perfect rhyme, that the words are pronounced the same from the vowel of the main stressed syllable onwards.