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Some nine-letter proper names remain monosyllabic when adding a tenth letter and apostrophe to form the possessive: Laugharne's / ˈ l ɑːr n z / [4] Scoughall's / ˈ s k oʊ l z / [12] In his short story, "Strychnine in the Soup", P. G. Wodehouse had a character whose surname was "Mapledurham", pronounced "Mum". This is eleven letters, while ...
The letter t corresponds to the affricate /t͡ʃ/ in some words as a result of yod-coalescence (for example, in words ending in -"ture", such as future). A common digraph is th , which usually represents a dental fricative , but occasionally represents /t/ (as in Thomas and thyme ).
Kwame Ture (/ ˈ k w ɑː m eɪ ˈ t ʊər eɪ /; born Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael; June 29, 1941 – November 15, 1998) was an American activist who played a major role in the civil rights movement in the United States and the global pan-African movement.
In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns and adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs.
Ture Malmgren (1851–1922), Swedish journalist and politician; Ture Nerman (1886–1969), Swedish author and politician; Ture Persson (1892–1956), Swedish sprinter; Ture Rangström (1884–1947), Swedish composer; Ture Rosvall (1891–1977), Swedish rower; Ture Zahab (born David HaLevi Segal, c. 1586–1667), Polish rabbinical authority
When a word space comes in the middle of a syllable (that is, when a syllable spans words), a tie bar ‿ can be used for liaison, as in the French combination les amis /lɛ.z‿a.mi/ . The liaison tie is also used to join lexical words into phonological words, for example hot dog /ˈhɒt‿dɒɡ/ .
Another type of spelling characteristic is related to word origin. For example, when representing a vowel, y represents the sound /ɪ/ in some words borrowed from Greek (reflecting an original upsilon), whereas the letter usually representing this sound in non-Greek words is the letter i .
Words ending in unstressed -ile derived from Latin adjectives ending -ilis are mostly pronounced with a full vowel in BrE / aɪ l / but a reduced vowel or syllabic L in AmE / əl / (e.g. fertile rhymes with fur tile in BrE but with furtle in AmE). AmE will (unlike BrE, except when indicated with B2) have a reduced last vowel: