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  2. Non-lexical vocables in music - Wikipedia

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    Spanish yeyé signer Massiel won the 1968 Eurovision Song Contest with La, la, la. Due to the wide-ranging vocal styles used in popular music, occasionally songs have been mistakenly categorized as having non-lexical vocables, when in fact the singers are performing actual lyrics rendered partially (or completely) unintelligible to the ear of ...

  3. Lyrics - Wikipedia

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    Lyrics in sheet music. This is a homorhythmic (i.e., hymn-style) arrangement of a traditional piece entitled "Adeste Fideles" (the original Latin lyrics to "O Come, All Ye Faithful") in standard two-staff format for mixed voices. Play ⓘ Lyrics are words that make up a song, usually consisting of verses and choruses. The writer of lyrics is a ...

  4. Most common words in Spanish - Wikipedia

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    The RAE is Spain's official institution for documenting, planning, and standardising the Spanish language. A word form is any of the grammatical variations of a word. The second table is a list of 100 most common lemmas found in a text corpus compiled by Mark Davies and other language researchers at Brigham Young University in the United States.

  5. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    Also an adjective to describe a singer or musician performing a note in which the intonation is an eighth or a quarter of a semitone too low. flautando Flutelike mode; used especially for string instruments to indicate a light, rapid bowing over the fingerboard flebile Feeble, low volume flessibile flexible [7] focoso or fuocoso Fiery (i.e ...

  6. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Cue sports

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    The canonical name format for the game [in English] for Wikipedia purposes is "nine-ball". Using nine-ball as the canonical example, the correct names of the game, outside the Wikipedia context, are (and grammatically must be) "nine-ball" or "9-ball", but we eschew "9-ball" on Wikipedia as a name of the game to avoid confusion between the game and the numbered ball.

  7. Spanish adjectives - Wikipedia

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    Spanish adjectives can be broadly divided into two groups: those whose lemma (the base form, the form found in dictionaries) ends in -o, and those whose lemma does not. The former generally inflect for both gender and number; the latter generally inflect just for number.

  8. Spanglish - Wikipedia

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    The inception of Spanglish is due to the influx of native Spanish speaking Latin American people into North America, specifically the United States of America. [18] As mentioned previously, the phenomenon of Spanglish can be separated into two different categories: code-switching , and borrowing, lexical and grammatical shifts . [ 19 ]

  9. List of sports idioms - Wikipedia

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    When referenced, it is usually speaking to changing the behavior or going back to an earlier time when things were functional or building basic skills to ensure the success of various endeavors. In some ball games (for example American or Canadian football, rugby, etc.), blocking and tackling are basic components of the game.