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  2. These are the most mispronounced words of 2024 - AOL

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    Messing up pronunciations can be a source of both annoyance and amusement, but language learning platform Babbel has put together a handy guide to stop you putting your foot in it.

  3. Singlish vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    sian / sien – (From Hokkien/Teochew 𤺪 siān) Bored, tired, or sick of something. [44] siao – (From Hokkien/Teochew 痟) 1. Crazy. Used in response to a silly suggestion. 2. An offensive term used to address a friend. 3. Used to refer to somebody who is a fanatic. "He siao bicycles" is saying that someone is crazy about bicycles. sia suay ...

  4. Seine - Wikipedia

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    The Seine (/ s eɪ n, s ɛ n / sayn, sen, [1] French: ⓘ) is a 777-kilometre-long (483 mi) river in northern France. [2] Its drainage basin is in the Paris Basin (a geological relative lowland) covering most of northern France. [3]

  5. List of shibboleths - Wikipedia

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    Locals, however, pronounce the name as /ˈskuːkəl/ SKOO-kəl. The US state of Oregon is home to a county, city, river, bay, state forest, museum, Native American tribe, and dairy processing company called Tillamook. Residents pronounce it as / ˈ t ɪ l ə m ʊ k /, while nonresidents often mistakenly say / ˈ t ɪ l ə m uː k /. [74]

  6. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Pronunciation

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    Normally, pronunciation is given only for the subject of the article in its lead section. For non-English words and names, use the pronunciation key for the appropriate language. If a common English rendering of the non-English name exists (Venice, Nikita Khrushchev), its pronunciation, if necessary, should be indicated before the non-English one.

  7. Hyperforeignism - Wikipedia

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    In Italian (and Spanish), the gender is indicated by the article; il (el) barista for a male and la barista for a female. The word latte ("milk"), as in caffè latte , is often misspelled as latté or lattè , implying stress on the final syllable.

  8. French pronouns - Wikipedia

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    This is a key difference from English: in English, possessive pronouns are inflected to indicate the gender and number of their antecedent — e.g., in "the tables are his", the form "his" indicates that the antecedent (the possessor) is masculine singular, whereas in the French les tables sont les siennes, "siennes" or its base form "sien ...

  9. Congress could ban new drones from two Chinese manufacturers

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    WASHINGTON (Reuters) -China-based DJI and Autel Robotics could be banned from selling new drones in the United States market under an annual military bill set to be voted on later this week by the ...