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  2. English orthography - Wikipedia

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    Other examples of this type are the - ity suffix (as in agile vs. agility, acid vs. acidity, divine vs. divinity, sane vs. sanity). See also: Trisyllabic laxing. Another example includes words like mean / ˈ m iː n / and meant / ˈ m ɛ n t /, where ea is pronounced differently in the two related words. Thus, again, the orthography uses only a ...

  3. List of irregularly spelled places in the United States

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    / l ɪ v ʊ r ˈ n ɔɪ / Lodi: LOH-dy / ˈ l oʊ d aɪ / Lompoc: LOM-pohk / ˈ l ɒ m p oʊ k / Los Angeles: loss AN-jəl-əss / l ɒ s ˈ æ n dʒ əl ə s / Louisville: LOO-iss-vil / ˈ l uː ɪ s v ɪ l / Most places besides the one in Kentucky Louisville, Kentucky: LUV-əl / ˈ l ʌ v əl / ⓘ LOO-ə-vəl / ˈ l uː ə v əl ...

  4. Metre (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    In poetry, metre (Commonwealth spelling) or meter (American spelling; see spelling differences) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.Many traditional verse forms prescribe a specific verse metre, or a certain set of metres alternating in a particular order.

  5. The Science Of Love In The 21st Century - The Huffington Post

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    Finally, love had been harnessed in the laboratory, seen, understood and broken into building blocks we could all apply to our lives. The article proposes a recipe for becoming a love “master” instead of a love “disaster” by responding the right way to what Gottman calls your partner's "bids for connection.”

  6. St Joseph's R.C. Church, Hay-on-Wye - Wikipedia

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    It led to his death a few days later, and him becoming the first Methodist Martyr. [131] Current parishioners remember that in 1968, Rev Dr Ian Paisley and other outsiders came to Hay-on-Wye to protest about the repurposing of the Belmont Rd Presbyterian chapel. Paisley did not suffer the same fate as Seward, but he did suffer the same lack of ...

  7. English language - Wikipedia

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    This gives an English syllable the following structure, (CCC)V(CCCCC), where C represents a consonant and V a vowel; the word strengths /strɛŋkθs/ is thus close to the most complex syllable possible in English. The consonants that may appear together in onsets or codas are restricted, as is the order in which they may appear.

  8. Romeo and Juliet - Wikipedia

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    Romeo and Juliet's love seems to be expressing the "Religion of Love" view rather than the Catholic view. Another point is that, although their love is passionate, it is only consummated in marriage, which keeps them from losing the audience's sympathy. [42] The play arguably equates love and sex with death.

  9. Hayley - Wikipedia

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    Hayley (pronounced / ˈ h eɪ l i /) is an English given name.It is derived from the English surname Haley, which in turn was based on an Old English toponym, a compound of heg "hay" and leah "clearing or meadow".