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  2. Three-letter acronym - Wikipedia

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    The exact phrase three-letter acronym appeared in the sociology literature in 1975. [1] Three-letter acronyms were used as mnemonics in biological sciences, from 1977 [2] and their practical advantage was promoted by Weber in 1982. [3] They are used in many other fields, but the term TLA is particularly associated with computing. [4]

  3. List of forms of word play - Wikipedia

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    Palindrome: a word or phrase that reads the same in either direction; Pangram: a sentence which uses every letter of the alphabet at least once; Tautogram: a phrase or sentence in which every word starts with the same letter; Caesar shift: moving all the letters in a word or sentence some fixed number of positions down the alphabet; Techniques ...

  4. Three-letter rule - Wikipedia

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    In English spelling, the three-letter rule, [n 1] or short-word rule, [2] is the observation that one- and two-letter words tend to be function words such as I, at, he, if, of, or, etc. [3] As a consequence of the rule, "content words" tend to have at least three letters. In particular, content words containing fewer than three phonemes may be ...

  5. Morpheme - Wikipedia

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    A morpheme is any of the smallest meaningful constituents within a linguistic expression and particularly within a word. [1] Many words are themselves standalone morphemes, while other words contain multiple morphemes; in linguistic terminology, this is the distinction, respectively, between free and bound morphemes.

  6. Jumble - Wikipedia

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    Jumble is a word puzzle with a clue, a drawing illustrating the clue, and a set of words, each of which is “jumbled” by scrambling its letters. A solver reconstructs the words, and then arranges letters at marked positions in the words to spell the answer phrase to the clue.

  7. Morphology (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    A morpheme is defined as the minimal meaningful unit of a language. In a word such as independently, the morphemes are said to be in-, de-, pend, -ent, and -ly; pend is the (bound) root and the other morphemes are, in this case, derivational affixes. [d] In words such as dogs, dog is the root and the -s is an inflectional

  8. Text segmentation - Wikipedia

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    Text segmentation is the process of dividing written text into meaningful units, such as words, sentences, or topics.The term applies both to mental processes used by humans when reading text, and to artificial processes implemented in computers, which are the subject of natural language processing.

  9. Mnemonic - Wikipedia

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    Knuckle mnemonic for the number of days in each month of the Gregorian calendar.Each knuckle represents a 31-day month. A mnemonic device (/ n ə ˈ m ɒ n ɪ k / nə-MON-ik) [1] or memory device is any learning technique that aids information retention or retrieval in the human memory, often by associating the information with something that is easier to remember.