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For instance, the English word laboratory is stressed on the second syllable in British English (labóratory often pronounced "labóratry", the second o being silent), but the first syllable in American English, with a secondary stress on the "tor" syllable (láboratory often pronounced "lábratory").
Synonyms are often from the different strata making up a language. For example, in English, Norman French superstratum words and Old English substratum words continue to coexist. [11] Thus, today there exist synonyms like the Norman-derived people, liberty and archer, and the Saxon-derived folk, freedom and bowman.
Periods can be used between words (as in "That. was. really. bad.") to emphasize whole sentences, mimicking when somebody slows down their speech for impact. In some cases, the engine behind the text area being parsed will render the text and the asterisks in bold automatically after the text is submitted.
Emphatic consonant, member of a phonological category of consonants in Semitic languages; Prosodic stress, speaking an important word more loudly or slowly so that it stands out
In the three weeks between the Michigan loss and Ohio State’s College Football Playoff opener against Tennessee, Day says he met with his team to emphasize the opportunity the Buckeyes still had ...
The hyphen ‐ is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. [1]The hyphen is sometimes confused with dashes (en dash –, em dash — and others), which are wider, or with the minus sign −, which is also wider and usually drawn a little higher to match the crossbar in the plus sign +.
The deadly Palisades and Eaton wildfires have finally been 100% contained — more than three weeks after they broke out in Los Angeles and the nearby Altadena area, according to California ...
Gerontologist Dr. Macie P. Smith points out some telltale signs that it might be time to set your loved one up with an at-home aide or in a senior living facility.