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  2. List of Latin-script letters - Wikipedia

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    Former letter of the English, German, Sorbian, and Latvian alphabets Ꟊ ꟊ S with short stroke overlay Used for tau gallicum in Gaulish [10] Ꟍ ꟍ S with diagonal stroke Used for Cupeño and Luiseño [30] Ꞅ ꞅ Insular S Variant of s [9] [3] Ƨ: Reversed S (Tone two) A letter used in the Zhuang language from 1957 to 1986 to indicate its ...

  3. List of Latin-script digraphs - Wikipedia

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    It is considered a single letter, and acronyms keep the digraph intact. The letter appears frequently in Hungarian words, such as the word for "Hungarian" itself: magyar. In the old orthography of Bouyei, it was used for /tɕ/. It is also commonly used in Burmese romanization schemes to represent /dʒ/.

  4. Rhoticity in English - Wikipedia

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    The loss of postvocalic /r/ in the British prestige standard in the late 18th and the early 19th centuries influenced the American port cities with close connections to Britain, which caused upper-class pronunciation to become non-rhotic in many Eastern and Southern port cities such as New York City, Boston, Alexandria, Charleston, and Savannah. [9]

  5. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.

  6. R - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 January 2025. 18th letter of the Latin alphabet This article is about the eighteenth letter of the Latin alphabet. For other uses, see R (disambiguation). For technical reasons, "R#J" redirects here. For the film, see R and J. R R r Usage Writing system Latin script Type Alphabetic Language of origin ...

  7. R-colored vowel - Wikipedia

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    In words such as start, many speakers have r-coloring only in the coda of the vowel, rather than as a simultaneous articulation modifying the whole duration. This can be represented in IPA by using a succession of two symbols such as [ɑɚ] or [ɑɹ] , rather than the unitary symbol [ɑ˞] .

  8. Death and immortality in Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    J. R. R. Tolkien repeatedly dealt with the theme of death and immortality in Middle-earth. He stated directly that the "real theme" of The Lord of the Rings was "Death and Immortality." [ T 1 ] In Middle-earth , Men are mortal, while Elves are immortal.

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

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    Most words are pronounced as in Canada, the five words in the left-hand column are typically pronounced with [-ɑr-], all common words ending in an unstressed full vowel. [21] In accents with the horse–hoarse merger, /ɔr/ also includes the historic /oʊr/ in words such as glory and force.