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  2. English orthography - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... rather than the more common value of c in word-final position as the sound /k/, ... word-initial before n, s, t ...

  3. English phonology - Wikipedia

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    The following table shows the 24 consonant phonemes found in most dialects of English, plus /x/, whose distribution is more limited. Fortis consonants are always voiceless, aspirated in syllable onset (except in clusters beginning with /s/ or /ʃ/), and sometimes also glottalized to an extent in syllable coda (most likely to occur with /t/, see T-glottalization), while lenis consonants are ...

  4. Syllable - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... The first syllable of a word is the initial syllable and the ... and terms were used to describe words based on the position ...

  5. Template:`s - Wikipedia

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    This template is used on approximately 7,000 pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage . Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

  6. Voiceless alveolar fricative - Wikipedia

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    The voiceless alveolar sibilant [s] has a strong hissing sound, as the s in English sink. It is one of the most common sounds in the world. It is one of the most common sounds in the world. The voiceless denti-alveolar sibilant [s̄] (an ad hoc notation), also called apico-dental, has a weaker lisping sound like English th in thin .

  7. Cologne phonetics - Wikipedia

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    Cologne phonetics (also Kölner Phonetik, Cologne process) is a phonetic algorithm which assigns to words a sequence of digits, the phonetic code. The aim of this procedure is that identical sounding words have the same code assigned to them. The algorithm can be used to perform a similarity search between words.

  8. Phonological history of English close front vowels - Wikipedia

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    The merger is also commonly found in American and Canadian English, but the realisation of the merged vowel varies according to syllable type, with [ə] appearing in word-final or open-syllable word-initial positions (such as dram a or c i lantro), but [ɪ~ɨ] often appears in other positions (abb o t and e xhaust).

  9. Template:'s - Wikipedia

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    Using this template avoids wikicoding issues that may occur when 's is used after a italicized word e.g. USS Ticonderoga 's. It includes inline CSS "padding-left:0.1em;" to provide some separation from the previous letter.