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  2. Nastasya Filippovna - Wikipedia

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    According to Mikhail Bakhtin, "Nastasya Filippovna's voice is divided between the voice that pronounces her a guilty 'fallen woman' and the voice that vindicates and accepts her." [ 3 ] Myshkin, himself a pure-hearted man, represents for her this second voice, and he unreservedly affirms her innocence even when she is fully immersed in her ...

  3. List of English words containing Q not followed by U

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    The nineteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet [L][C] Also written koph: Hebrew קוף: qorma: A type of curry [Co] Much more commonly written korma: Persian→Urdu قورمه: QWERTY: A standard English keyboard layout [ODE][COD][LC][C][AOX][OED] Plural qwertys or qwerties; also rendered QWERTY: Named after the first letters on the top row of ...

  4. Four-letter word - Wikipedia

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    The fact that love is a word with four letters has been used in several popular song titles, including "Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word" written by Bob Dylan and performed by Joan Baez, "Four Letter Word" written by Ricki and Marty Wilde and performed by Kim Wilde, "4 Letter Word" written by Claude Kelly and Matt Squire and performed by David Cook.

  5. Crosswordese - Wikipedia

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    Crosswordese is the group of words frequently found in US crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation. The words are usually short, three to five letters, with letter combinations which crossword constructors find useful in the creation of crossword puzzles, such as words that start or end with vowels (or both), abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual ...

  6. 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]

  7. American and British English pronunciation differences

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    Differences in pronunciation between American English (AmE) and British English (BrE) can be divided into . differences in accent (i.e. phoneme inventory and realisation).See differences between General American and Received Pronunciation for the standard accents in the United States and Britain; for information about other accents see regional accents of English.

  8. Weatherman easily pronounced 58-letter Welsh town name - AOL

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    Weatherman easily pronounced 58-letter Welsh town name. Nathan Giannini. Updated July 14, 2016 at 7:40 PM. Channel 4 Weather Man Pronounces Longest Place Name in Wales. Quick! How do you pronounce ...

  9. Ancient Greek phonology - Wikipedia

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    The letter lambda λ probably represented a lateral ("clear") as in Modern Greek and most European languages, rather than a velarized ("dark") as in English in coda position and Balto-Slavic languages. The letter rho ρ was pronounced as an alveolar trill [r], as in Italian or Modern Greek rather than as in standard varieties of English or French.