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  2. Cielito Lindo - Wikipedia

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    Cielito Lindo. "Cielito Lindo" is a Mexican folk song or copla popularized in 1882 by Mexican author Quirino Mendoza y Cortés (c. 1862 – 1957). [1] It is roughly translated as "Lovely Sweet One". Although the word cielo means "sky" or "heaven", it is also a term of endearment comparable to "sweetheart" or "honey".

  3. ¡Ay, caramba! - Wikipedia

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    ¡Ay, caramba!" (pronounced [ˈaj kaˈɾamba]), from the Spanish interjections ay (denoting surprise or pain) and caramba (a minced oath for carajo), is an exclamation used in Portuguese and Spanish to denote surprise (usually positive).

  4. Limerick (song) - Wikipedia

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    Limerick (song) "Limerick" is a traditional humorous drinking song with many obscene verses. The tune usually used for sung limericks is traditionally " Cielito Lindo," with the words arranged in the form of a limerick. [citation needed]

  5. Yiddish words used in English - Wikipedia

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    For instance, the word פֿאַרקאַקטע may be spelled farkakte, ferkockte, verkackte, among others. In its roots, though, Yiddish (whether used as English slang or not) is fundamentally mediaeval High German; although mediaeval German suffered from the same vagaries in spelling, it later became standardised in Modern High German.

  6. Y - Wikipedia

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    Y (consonant) Vowel. The letter Y was used to represent the sound /y/in Old English, so Latin u , y and i were all used to represent distinct vowel sounds. But, by the time of Middle English, /y/had lost its roundednessand became identical to i (/iː/and /ɪ/). Therefore, many words that originally had i were spelled with y , and vice versa. In ...

  7. Pig Latin - Wikipedia

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    Pig Latin. Pig Latin (Igpay Atinlay) is a language game, argot, or cant in which words in English are altered, usually by adding a fabricated suffix or by moving the onset or initial consonant or consonant cluster of a word to the end of the word and adding a vocalic syllable (usually -ay or /eɪ/) to create such a suffix. [1]

  8. Help:Pronunciation respelling key - Wikipedia

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    The following pronunciation respelling key is used in some Wikipedia articles to respell the pronunciations of English words. It does not use special symbols or diacritics apart from the schwa (ə), which is used for the first sound in the word "about". See documentation for { {Respell}} for examples and instructions on using the template.

  9. Sound correspondences between English accents - Wikipedia

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    The International Phonetic Alphabet chart for English dialects complies all the most common applications of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent pronunciations of the English language. These charts give a diaphoneme for each sound, followed by its realization in different dialects. The symbols for the diaphonemes are given in ...