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  2. Mad Gab - Wikipedia

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    Mad Gab is a board game involving words. At least two teams of 2–12 players have two minutes to sound out three puzzles. The puzzles are known as mondegreens and contain small words that, when put together, make a word or phrase. For example, "These If Hill Wore" when pronounced quickly sounds like "The Civil War". There are two levels, easy ...

  3. Hyperforeignism - Wikipedia

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    The South American beverage, mate, is frequently spelled maté in English, adding an acute accent (as in 'café') to indicate that the word has two syllables and is not pronounced like the English word mate (/ ˈ m eɪ t /). In Spanish, such an accent would shift the stress and change the meaning of the word (maté meaning "I killed" in Spanish).

  4. List of Spanish words of Indigenous American Indian origin

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    This is a list of Spanish words that come from indigenous languages of the Americas. It is further divided into words that come from Arawakan , Aymara , Carib , Mayan , Nahuatl , Quechua , Taíno , Tarahumara , Tupi and uncertain (the word is known to be from the Americas, but the exact source language is unclear).

  5. Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

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    Spanish: ñam: ñam ñam: glu glu glu, glup: glup: Swedish: nam-nam: nam nam: glugg glugg, klunk klunk: gulp: Tamil: கருக்கு முறுக்கு (karukk murukk) (mainly used to indicate crunching) Thai: งั่บ (ngap), ง่ำ (ngam) ง่ำ ง่ำ (ngam ngam) อึ้ก (uek), เอื้อก (ueak ...

  6. Puerto Rican Spanish - Wikipedia

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    The best and most well-known example of this pattern can be heard in the Puerto Rican pronunciation for the wide-spread use of the English word man which sound like "meyng". Shortening of words Puerto Ricans also often shorten words by eliminating whole syllables. Examples are the words para, madre, and padre ("for", "mother", and "father ...

  7. List of Spanish words of Indo-Aryan origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Spanish words that come from Indo-Aryan languages.It is further divided into words that come from Persian, Romani and Sanskrit.Some of these words have alternate etymologies and may also appear on a list of Spanish words from a different language.

  8. Play Just Words Online for Free - AOL.com

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    Just Words. If you love Scrabble, you'll love the wonderful word game fun of Just Words. Play Just Words free online! By Masque Publishing

  9. Dubbing - Wikipedia

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    The dialogue writer's role is to make the translation sound natural in the target language, and to make the translation sound like a credible dialogue instead of merely a translated text. [ 12 ] Another task of dialogue writers is to check whether a translation matches an on-screen character's mouth movements or not, by reading aloud ...