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According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the tee-in teetotal is the letter T, so it is actually t-total, though it was never spelled that way. [3] The word is first recorded in 1832 in a general sense in an American source, and in 1833 in England in the context of abstinence.
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Don't, a 2020 American game show with Adam Scott and Ryan Reynolds; DONT, Disturb Opponents' Notrump, a bridge bidding convention "-dont" (actually "-odont"), a suffix meaning "tooth", used in taxonomy; Doctor Don't, the teenage kid version of Doctor Eggman, from New Yoke City, in Sonic Prime
The Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary claims that t-glottalization is now most common in London, Leeds, Edinburgh, and Glasgow. [7] Uniquely for English in the West Indies, Barbadian English uses a glottal allophone for /t/, and also less frequently for /k/ and /p/. [8]
QWERTY, one of the few native English words with Q not followed by U, is derived from the first six letters of a standard keyboard layout. In English, the letter Q is almost always followed immediately by the letter U, e.g. quiz, quarry, question, squirrel. However, there are some exceptions.
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 onwa
When thou is the grammatical subject of a finite verb in the indicative mood, the verb form typically ends in -(e)st (e.g., "thou goest", "thou do(e)st"), but in some cases just -t (e.g., "thou art"; "thou shalt"). Originally, thou was simply the singular counterpart to the plural pronoun ye, derived from an ancient Indo-European root.
In the card game contract bridge, DONT is a conventional overcall used to interfere with an opponent's one notrump (1NT) opening bid. DONT, an acronym for Disturb Opponents' Notrump, was designed by Marty Bergen , and is therefore also referred to as "Bergen over Notrump".