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  2. Ubbi dubbi - Wikipedia

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    Ubbi dubbi works by adding -ub-/ ʌ b / before each vowel sound in a syllable [5] (or, as a linguist might put it, "insert [ˈʌb] after each syllable onset"). [6] The stress falls on the "ub" of the syllable that is stressed in the original word.

  3. English words without vowels - Wikipedia

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    In modern Welsh, "W" is simply a single letter which often represents a vowel sound. Thus words borrowed from Welsh may use w this way, such as: The crwth [6] (pronounced /ˈkrʊθ/ or /ˈkruːθ/, also spelled cruth in English) is a Welsh musical instrument similar to the violin. [7] He intricately rhymes, to the music of crwth and pibgorn. [8]

  4. Lipogram - Wikipedia

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    In Hungarian language, the game "eszperente" is a game where people only speak using words that contain the vowel "e"; as this makes otherwise straightforward communication complicated, a lot of creative thinking is required in describing common terms in roundabout ways.

  5. Phonics - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. English orthography - Wikipedia

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    However, there are only 26 letters in the modern English alphabet, so there is not a one-to-one correspondence between letters and sounds. Many sounds are spelled using different letters or multiple letters, and for those words whose pronunciation is predictable from the spelling, the sounds denoted by the letters depend on the surrounding letters.

  7. Language game - Wikipedia

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    An 'e' is added before words starting with a consonant, and a 't' is added before words starting with a vowel. In every other word the vowels are doubled and an 's' is added in between them. In the other words every vowel is doubled and an "l" is added in between. Sv: "Jag är från Sverige" - "Ejasag tälär efråsån Esveleriligele".

  8. IPA vowel chart with audio - Wikipedia

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    Within the chart “close”, “open”, “mid”, “front”, “central”, and “back” refer to the placement of the sound within the mouth. [3] At points where two sounds share an intersection, the left is unrounded, and the right is rounded which refers to the shape of the lips while making the sound. [4]

  9. Elision - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, an elision or deletion is the omission of one or more sounds (such as a vowel, a consonant, or a whole syllable) in a word or phrase.However, these terms are also used to refer more narrowly to cases where two words are run together by the omission of a final sound. [1]