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According to Roger Lass, the laxing occurred in the 17th century, but other linguists have suggested that it took place potentially much earlier. [12] The short mid vowels have also undergone lowering and so the continuation of Middle English /e/ (as in words like dress) now has a quality closer to in most accents. Again, however, it is not ...
The song was about the death of a friend. Alexa said "Writing this song was a way of trying to come to terms with the sudden death of a friend. It was such a sad time, but it inspired me to write what I was going through. It's a very precious song.
Trisyllabic laxing is a process which has occurred at various periods in the history of English: The earliest occurrence of trisyllabic laxing occurred in late Old English and caused stressed long vowels to become shortened before clusters of two consonants when two or more syllables followed.
Dave Limp, the tech giant’s devices and services boss, says the virtual assistant is learning to take ‘mundane’ tasks off users.
The following is a sortable table of songs recorded by Frank Sinatra: . The column Song lists the song title.; The column Year lists the year in which the song was recorded. ...
The music video shows Turner on a crashed car with Alexa Chung, his then girlfriend. Kane appears later. It won best video award at the NME Awards 2009. [5] The video was inspired by Federico Fellini's cult film Toby Dammit. [6]
In phonology, tenseness or tensing is, most generally, the pronunciation of a sound with greater muscular effort or constriction than is typical. [1] More specifically, tenseness is the pronunciation of a vowel with less centralization (i.e. either more fronting or more backing), longer duration, and narrower mouth width (with the tongue being perhaps more raised) compared with another vowel. [2]