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  2. English-language vowel changes before historic /r/ - Wikipedia

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    The relevant words and names with historic /ɛr/ are er in a stressed syllable, historic /ʊr/ are spelled as a stressed ur ,or ,our , and /ɪr/ is any ir or yr . The diaphoneme /ər/ originates from unstressed vowels before /r/ and was not otherwise distinct.

  3. Myth of Er - Wikipedia

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    The Myth of Er (/ ɜːr /; Ancient Greek: Ἤρ, romanized: ér, gen.: Ἠρός ) is a legend that concludes Plato 's Republic (10.614–10.621). The story includes an account of the cosmos and the afterlife that greatly influenced religious, philosophical, and scientific thought for many centuries.

  4. Erhua - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, some words may sound unnatural without rhotacization, as is the case with 花 or 花儿 (huā or huār 'flower'). [11] In these cases, the erhua serves to label the word as a noun (and sometimes a specific noun among a group of homophones). Since in modern Mandarin many single-syllable words (in which there are both nouns and ...

  5. Ur - Wikipedia

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    Ur [a] (/ ʊr / or / ɜːr / [3]) was an important Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, located at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar [b] (Arabic: تَلّ ...

  6. R-colored vowel - Wikipedia

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    In Quebec French, the vowel /œ̃/ is generally pronounced [œ̃˞] and the r-colored vowels are also pronounced in loan words. [citation needed] For example, the word hamburger can be pronounced [ambɚɡɚ], the word soccer can be pronounced [sɒkɚ] etc. The vowel /ø/ may be pronounced as [ø˞ː] in open syllables.

  7. Today's Wordle Hint, Answer for #1305 on Tuesday, January 14 ...

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  8. Today’s NYT ‘Strands’ Hints, Spangram and Answers for Friday ...

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    For every 3 non-theme words you find, you earn a hint. Hints show the letters of a theme word. If there is already an active hint on the board, a hint will show that word’s letter order.

  9. Interlingue grammar - Wikipedia

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    ar, er, ir: verb infinitive. far (to do), posser (be able), scrir (to write) e : the general substantival (noun) ending used obligatorily to differentiate nouns from other parts or speech, for reasons of pronunciation, or optionally for euphony.