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Souvankham Thammavongsa is a Laotian Canadian poet and short story writer. In 2019, she won an O. Henry Award for her short story, "Slingshot", which was published in Harper's Magazine, [1] and in 2020 her short story collection How to Pronounce Knife won the Giller Prize.
How to Pronounce Knife was generally well-received by critics, including a starred reviews Booklist, who wrote, "These stories have a quiet brilliance in their raw portrayal of the struggle to find meaning in difficult times and to belong in a foreign place. Thammavongsa writes with an elegance that is both brutal and tender, giving her stories ...
Orthoepy is the study of pronunciation of a particular language, within a specific oral tradition. The term is from the Greek ὀρθοέπεια orthoepeia, from ὀρθός orthos (' correct ') and ἔπος epos (' speech '). The antonym is cacoepy "bad or wrong pronunciation".
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“And my apologies for the phonetic spelling or pronunciation of the names that was on the cards. I would have been better just reading from the book. My apologies, graduates,” they said.
The Liber Usualis (Usual book) is a book of commonly used Gregorian chants in the Catholic tradition, compiled by the monks of the Abbey of Solesmes in France. According to Willi Apel , the chants in the Liber Usualis originated in the 11th century.
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When Kirschner was 16, Germany invaded Poland. [2] In 1940, Kirschner's older sister Raizel received a summons to work at a German labor camp; Sala volunteered to go in her sister's place, and on October 28, 1940, was taken to Geppersdorf, where Jewish male laborers built new stretches of the autobahn and women did domestic chores, peeling potatoes and sewing swastikas onto German uniforms.