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  2. Initial-stress-derived noun - Wikipedia

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    See also list of Latin words with English derivatives. When the stress is moved, the pronunciation of words often changes in other ways as well, especially for vowels, most commonly by the reduction of a vowel sound when it becomes unstressed to a schwa.

  3. Zalgo text - Wikipedia

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    The sentence "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents", in Zalgo textZalgo text is generated by excessively adding various diacritical marks in the form of Unicode combining characters to the letters in a string of digital text. [4]

  4. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Spelling/Words ending with "-ise ...

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    The following is a list of common words sometimes ending with "-ise" (en-GB) especially in the UK popular press and "-ize" in American English (en-US) and Oxford spelling (en-GB-oxendict; formerly en-GB-oed) as used by the British Oxford English Dictionary, which uses the "-ize" ending for most of the same words as American English.

  5. English prefix - Wikipedia

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    Unlike derivational suffixes, English derivational prefixes typically do not change the lexical category of the base (and are so called class-maintaining prefixes). Thus, the word do, consisting of a single morpheme, is a verb, as is the word redo, which consists of the prefix re-and the base root do.

  6. -ly - Wikipedia

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    When the suffix is added to a word ending in the letter y, the y before the suffix is replaced with the letter i, as in happily (from happy). This does not always apply in the case of monosyllabic words; for example, shy becomes shyly (but dry can become dryly or drily , and gay becomes gaily ).

  7. Latinisation of names - Wikipedia

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    Latinisation (or Latinization) [1] of names, also known as onomastic Latinisation (or onomastic Latinization), is the practice of rendering a non-Latin name in a modern Latin style. [1]

  8. List of closed pairs of English rhyming words - Wikipedia

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    This page has a list of closed pairs of English rhyming words—in each pair, both words rhyme with each other and only with each other. Monosyllabic pairs bairn, ...

  9. Ify Nneji - Wikipedia

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    Ify Nneji was born on 26 March 1983 into a religious family in Anambra State but grew up in Kaduna. [1] [2] Nneji holds a bachelor's degree in Public Administration, a master's degree in Human Resource Management and a Doctor of Public Administration from Enugu State University of Science and Technology.