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  2. Zero consonant - Wikipedia

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    The letter א aleph is a zero consonant in Ashkenazi Hebrew. It originally represented a glottal stop, a value it retains in other Hebrew dialects and in formal Israeli Hebrew. In Arabic, the non-hamzated letter ا alif is often a placeholder for an initial vowel. In Javanese script, the letter ꦲ ha is used for a vowel (silent 'h').

  3. Mnemonic major system - Wikipedia

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    The link is to the sound, not the letter. (For example, the letters C in "cat", "Cynthia", and "cello" each have different values in the system – 7, 0, and 6, respectively.) Vowels, semivowels and the consonant /h/ are ignored. These can be used as "fillers" to make sensible words from the resulting consonant sequences. A standard mapping [2] is:

  4. List of English words without rhymes - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of English words without rhymes, called refractory rhymes—that is, a list of words in the English language that rhyme with no other English word. The word "rhyme" here is used in the strict sense, called a perfect rhyme, that the words are pronounced the same from the vowel of the main stressed syllable onwards.

  5. Soundex - Wikipedia

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    Map all occurrences of a, e, i, o, u, y, h, w. to zero(0) Replace all consonants (include the first letter) with digits as in [2.] above. Replace all adjacent same digits with one digit, and then remove all the zero (0) digits; If the saved letter's digit is the same as the resulting first digit, remove the digit (keep the letter).

  6. International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The letters chosen for the IPA are meant to harmonize with the Latin alphabet. [note 7] For this reason, most letters are either Latin or Greek, or modifications thereof. Some letters are neither: for example, the letter denoting the glottal stop, ʔ , originally had the form of a question mark with the dot removed.

  7. Zero (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    There are several kinds of zero: In phonetics and phonology, a null phoneme or zero phone indicates that no phone is produced where one might be expected. For example, in syllable structure analysis, null onset indicates that a syllable lacks an initial consonant (onset) that is normally required by phonotactics of the considered

  8. Today's Wordle Hint, Answer for #1255 on Monday, November 25 ...

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    Today's Wordle Answer for #1255 on Monday, November 25, 2024. Today's Wordle answer on Monday, November 25, 2024, is BROWN. How'd you do? Next: Catch up on other Wordle answers from this week.

  9. Silent letter - Wikipedia

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    The letter 'য' ('j') in its consonant clusters changes the pronunciation of the other letters in the cluster. For example, ন্যা য় (ন্যা = ন 'n'+ য + আ 'ā') (justice) is written as " njā y" but pronounced as " na y" ( a as in h a t); ক ন্যা (girl or daughter) is written as "ko njā " but pronounced as "ko ...