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Wednesday is sometimes informally referred to as "hump day" in North America, a reference to the fact that Wednesday is the middle day—or "hump"—of a typical work week. [5] [6] Lillördag, or "little Saturday", is a Nordic tradition of turning Wednesday evening into a small weekend-like celebration. [7] Humpday is also a name of a 2009 film.
General Indian English here refers to a variety originating outside of the eastern regions and southern regions, crossing regional boundaries throughout the Republic of India. As mentioned, Cultivated Indian English is almost entirely this General Indian dialect but with a few additional features derived from Received Pronunciation .
Indian Pronunciation Problems in English, ESLAN. 'Hover & Hear' pronunciations in a Standard Indian English accent, and compare side by side with other English accents from around the World. "Linguistic and Social Characteristics of Indian English" by Jason Baldridge: An analysis of Indian language published by the "Language In India" magazine.
Not only did I want my non-Indian husband to properly pronounce the baby’s name, but I even anticipated the way a teacher would read it out loud in front of the whole class on the first day of ...
Albanian adopted the Latin terms for Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday, translated the Latin terms for Sunday and Monday using the native names of Diell and Hënë, respectively, and replaced the Latin terms for Thursday and Friday with the equivalent native deity names Enji and Prende, respectively. [18]
The name of Wednesday Addams was inspired by the nursery rhyme Monday's Child. Wednesday is a usually feminine given name, taken from the day of the week.It came into greater use after Charles Addams chose the name for Wednesday Addams on the 1964 television sitcom The Addams Family, which was based on the cartoons he originally published in The New Yorker magazine beginning in 1938.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Hindi and Urdu on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Hindi and Urdu in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Lack of other verb markers is commonly reported in Indian speech too, like an absence of standard English's "-ed" or "-s" endings for verb tense. Verbs like be , have , and get are also widely deleted, and some varieties of American Indian English add plural markers to mass nouns : thus, furnitures , homeworks , foods , etc.