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  2. Talk:Saint-Domingue - Wikipedia

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    The word "Domingue" is simply French for Dominic, and it is pronounced "Doh-MANG," to rhyme with meringue. The "ue" at the end is silent.PGNormand 06:33, 26 November 2011 (UTC) "Domingue" seems to suffer a dual identity in English, being "Domingo" in Spanish, "Sunday" in English. --KPDcs 22:05, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

  3. Glasgow dialect - Wikipedia

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    The Glasgow vernacular has also established itself in Scottish literature. [7] Many authors spell some of the Scots elements phonetically, often coinciding with common spelling errors, [8] rather than using the prestigious Modern Scots conventions.

  4. 1791 in Scotland - Wikipedia

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    Poet Robert Burns gives up farming for a full-time post as an exciseman in Dumfries, writes "Ae Fond Kiss", "The Banks O' Doon" and "Sweet Afton", and publishes his last major poem, the narrative "Tam o' Shanter" (written 1790 and first published on 18 March 1791 in the Edinburgh Herald).

  5. Vincent Ogé - Wikipedia

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    Vincent Ogé (c. 1757 – 6 February 1791) was a Creole [1] revolutionary, merchant, military officer and goldsmith who had a leading role in a failed uprising against French colonial rule in the colony of Saint-Domingue in 1790.

  6. Saint-Domingue - Wikipedia

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    Saint-Domingue became known as the "Pearl of the Antilles" – one of the richest colonies in the world in the 18th-century French empire. It was the greatest jewel in imperial France's mercantile crown. By the 1780s, Saint-Domingue produced about 40 percent of all the sugar and 60 percent of all the coffee consumed in Europe.

  7. Modern Scots - Wikipedia

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    Munn, mad for the want o' sleep and wat to the bane, swüre back at him; and than Goulay wadna let him near his wife! Ye mind what an awful day it was; the thunder roared as if the heavens were tumbling on the world, and the lichtnin sent the trees daudin on the roads, and folk hid below their beds an prayed-they thocht it was the judgment!

  8. Pronunciation - Wikipedia

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    Pronunciation is the way in which a word or a language is spoken. This may refer to generally agreed-upon sequences of sounds used in speaking a given word or language in a specific dialect ("correct" or "standard" pronunciation) or simply the way a particular individual speaks a word or language.

  9. Independence of Haiti - Wikipedia

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    Later, under French colonial rule, the Caribbean island was known as Saint-Domingue (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃.dɔ.mɛ̃ɡ]) and was a French colony from 1659 to 1804. [ 7 ] Early on, enslaved people on the island began resisting captivity and fighting to restore their freedom.