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  2. List of English words that may be spelled with a ligature

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    Note that some words contain an ae which may not be written æ because the etymology is not from the Greek -αι-or Latin -ae-diphthongs. These include: In instances of aer (starting or within a word) when it makes the sound IPA [ɛə]/[eə] (air). Comes from the Latin āër, Greek ἀήρ. When ae makes the diphthong / eɪ / (lay) or / aɪ ...

  3. English terms with diacritical marks - Wikipedia

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    Certain words, like piñata, jalapeño and quinceañera, are usually kept intact. In many instances the ñ is replaced with the plain letter n. In words of German origin (e.g. doppelgänger), the letters with umlauts ä, ö, ü may be written ae, oe, ue. [14] This could be seen in many newspapers during World War II, which printed Fuehrer for ...

  4. Australian English phonology - Wikipedia

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    The words far, far more and farm do not contain an but far out will contain the linking sound because the next word starts with a vowel sound. An intrusive [ ɹ ] may be inserted before a vowel in words that do not have r in the spelling.

  5. English words without vowels - Wikipedia

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    This vocalic w generally represented /uː/, [3] [4] as in wss ("use"). [5] However at that time the form w was still sometimes used to represent a digraph uu (see W), not as a separate letter. In modern Welsh, "W" is simply a single letter which often represents a vowel sound. Thus words borrowed from Welsh may use w this way, such as:

  6. Sound correspondences between English accents - Wikipedia

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    In the vowels chart, a separate phonetic value is given for each major dialect, alongside the words used to name their corresponding lexical sets. The diaphonemes for the lexical sets given here are based on RP and General American; they are not sufficient to express all of the distinctions found in other dialects, such as Australian English.

  7. Madison Keys upsets Aryna Sabalenka to win Australian Open ...

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    Madison Keys played brave and accurate tennis when she needed it most, powering to a 6-3, 2-6, 7-5 victory for her first Grand Slam title. Madison Keys upsets Aryna Sabalenka to win Australian ...

  8. Near-open front unrounded vowel - Wikipedia

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    Sagittal section of a vocal tract pronouncing the IPA sound æ . Note that a wavy glottis in this diagram indicates a voiced sound.. The near-open front unrounded vowel, or near-low front unrounded vowel, [1] is a type of vowel sound.

  9. Combinatorics on words - Wikipedia

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    Combinatorics on words is a fairly new field of mathematics, branching from combinatorics, which focuses on the study of words and formal languages. The subject looks at letters or symbols, and the sequences they form. Combinatorics on words affects various areas of mathematical study, including algebra and computer science. There have been a ...