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The TRAP – BATH split is a vowel split that occurs mainly in Southern England English (including Received Pronunciation), Australian English, New Zealand English, Indian English, South African English and to a lesser extent in some Welsh English as well as older Northeastern New England English by which the Early Modern English phoneme /æ/ was lengthened in certain environments and ...
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Old English on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Old English in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Montpellier ( UK : / m ɒ n t ˈ p ɛ l i eɪ / ; US : / ˌ m oʊ n p ɛ l ˈ j eɪ / ; French: [mɔ̃pəlje, -pɛl-] ⓘ ; [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Occitan : Montpelhièr [mumpeˈʎɛ] ) is a city in southern France near the ...
Montpelier [a] [6] [7] is the capital city of the U.S. state of Vermont and the county seat of Washington County. The site of Vermont's state government , it is the least populous state capital in the United States. [ 8 ]
Some words contain silent letters, which do not represent any sound in modern English pronunciation. Examples include the l in talk, half, calf, etc., the w in two and sword, gh as mentioned above in numerous words such as though, daughter, night, brought, and the commonly encountered silent e (discussed further below).
Cheyenne (from the French pronunciation and spelling of the Dakota word Sahi'yena, a diminutive of Sahi'ya, a Dakotan name for the Cree people. [188]) Cheyenne River; Dubois (named after U.S. Senator Fred Dubois, of French-Canadian ancestry) Fontenelle; Fort Laramie; Fremont County (named for John C. Frémont, French-American pioneer and ...
Cannes is taking over our social media feeds with the biggest celebrity sightings, the most glamorous fashion and riveting film reviews this season has to offer. And that's to be expected: As one ...
The English words sphere /ˈsfɪər/ and sphinx /ˈsfɪŋks/, Greek loanwords, break the rule that two fricatives may not appear adjacently word-initially. Some English words, including thrash, three, throat, and throw, start with the voiceless dental fricative /θ/, the liquid /r/, or the /r/ cluster (/θ/+/r/). This cluster example in Proto ...