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This is a list of musicals, including Broadway musicals, West End musicals, and musicals that premiered in other places, as well as film musicals, whose titles fall into the M–Z alphabetic range. (See also List of notable musical theatre productions , List of operettas , List of Bollywood films , List of rock musicals .)
The name of the letter Z is usually the British, Canadian and Australian zed /zed/. However the alphabet song for children is sometimes sung ending with /ziː/ in accordance with the rhyme. Where Z is universally pronounced zee in places, names, terms, or titles, such as ZZ Top , LZ ( landing zone ), Jay Z (celebrity), or Z Nation (TV show) New ...
In words, mostly of Latin origin, where ä and u are separated by a syllable boundary, it represents /ɛ.ʊ/, e.g. Matthäus (a German form for Matthew). aw is used in English in ways that parallel English au , though it appears more often at the end of a word. In Cornish, it represents /aʊ/ or /æʊ/.
Modern English is written with a Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters, with each having both uppercase and lowercase forms. The word alphabet is a compound of alpha and beta, the names of the first two letters in the Greek alphabet. Old English was first written down using the Latin alphabet during the 7th century.
Flags of certain countries at the Élysée Palace in Paris for a peace conference regarding Libya, 2011. The national flags (other than that of the host, France) are arranged in French alphabetical order: Allemagne, Belgique, Canada, Danemark, Émirats Arabes Unis, Espagne, États-Unis, Grèce, Irak, Italie, Jordanie, Maroc, Norvège, Pays-Bas, Pologne, Qatar, Royaume-Uni.
v. t. e. English orthography comprises the set of rules used when writing the English language, [ 1 ][ 2 ] allowing readers and writers to associate written graphemes with the sounds of spoken English, as well as other features of the language. [ 3 ] English's orthography includes norms for spelling, hyphenation, capitalisation, word breaks ...
Historical development. The Old English vowels included a pair of short and long close back vowels, /u/ and /uː/, both written u (the longer vowel is often distinguished as ū in modern editions of Old English texts). There was also a pair of back vowels of mid-height, /o/ and /oː/, both of which were written o (the longer vowel is often ō ...
Reading by using phonics is often referred to as decoding words, sounding-out words or using print-to-sound relationships.Since phonics focuses on the sounds and letters within words (i.e. sublexical), [13] it is often contrasted with whole language (a word-level-up philosophy for teaching reading) and a compromise approach called balanced literacy (the attempt to combine whole language and ...