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  2. Ghoti - Wikipedia

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    The expected pronunciation in English would sound like "goatee" / ˈ ɡ oʊ t i /, not "fish". [ 1 ] Both of the digraphs in the spelling — gh and ti — are examples of consonant shifts, the gradual transformation of a consonant in a particular spoken context while retaining its identity in writing.

  3. List of shibboleths - Wikipedia

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    Fish and chips: The accents of Australians and New Zealanders seem very similar, and the term fish and chips is sometimes evoked to illustrate a major difference between the two. In New Zealand pronunciation short i is a central vowel, [ɘ]. This vowel sound is sometimes caricatured as "fush and chups" by Australians.

  4. Fear of mice and rats - Wikipedia

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    A house mouse (Mus musculus). Fear of mice and rats is one of the most common specific phobias.It is sometimes referred to as musophobia (from Greek μῦς "mouse") or murophobia (a coinage from the taxonomic adjective "murine" for the family Muridae that encompasses mice and rats, and also Latin mure "mouse/rat"), or as suriphobia, from French souris, "mouse".

  5. Matthew 7:10 - Wikipedia

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    In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? The World English Bible translates the passage as: Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent? The Novum Testamentum Graece text is: ἢ καὶ ἰχθὺν αἰτήσει, μὴ ὄφιν ἐπιδώσει αὐτῷ;

  6. The Bible in Living English - Wikipedia

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    Byington states in his preface: “The spelling and the pronunciation are not highly important. What is highly important is to keep it clear that this is a personal name. There are several texts that cannot be properly understood if we translate this name by a common noun like Lord , or, much worse, by a substantivized adjective”.

  7. Ichthys - Wikipedia

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    Ichthys was adopted as a Christian symbol.. The ichthys or ichthus (/ ˈ ɪ k θ ə s / [1]), from the Greek ikhthū́s (ἰχθύς, 1st cent.AD Koine Greek pronunciation: [ikʰˈtʰys], "fish") is (in its modern rendition) a symbol consisting of two intersecting arcs, the ends of the right side extending beyond the meeting point so as to resemble the profile of a fish.

  8. Musophobia - Wikipedia

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  9. Pele-joez-el-gibbor-abi-ad-sar-shalom - Wikipedia

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    Pele-joez-el-gibbor-abi-ad-sar-shalom [a] is a prophetic name or title which occurs in Isaiah 9:5 in the Hebrew Bible or Isaiah 9:6 in English Bibles. It is one of a series of prophetic names found in chapters 7, 8 and 9 of the Book of Isaiah, including most notably Immanuel [b] and Maher-shalal-hash-baz [c] in the previous chapter (Isaiah 8:1–3), which is a reference to the impending ...