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Ashley Augustus Boone, Jr. (1938–1994) was an American marketing and distribution executive in the film industry. [1] He was the first black president of a major Hollywood studio, and he played a critical role in the launch of Star Wars , the most successful movie franchise ever.
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs, which are written differently but pronounced the same).
This is a list of British English words that have different American English spellings, for example, colour (British English) and color (American English). Word pairs are listed with the British English version first, in italics, followed by the American English version: spelt, spelled; Derived words often, but not always, follow their root.
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Ashley entered the top 100 names for boys in New South Wales in 1971 but became more popular for girls in 1986. It reached a ranking of #17 for girls in 1987, and left the top 100 in 2011. It reached a ranking of #56 in 1985 for boys. For women, the Ashleigh spelling is as common as Ashley and reached a ranking of #13 in 1990. [6]
NHL star Boone Jenner and his wife Maggie's son was stillborn, the professional ice hockey player announced on Instagram. "We are at a loss for words," Boone, captain of the Columbus Blue Jackets ...
Courtesy of Maggie Jenner/Instagram NHL star Boone Jenner and wife Maggie Jenner suffered an unimaginable loss when their son was stillborn one month before his due date. “We are at a loss for ...
In Canada, the -ize ending is more common, although the Ontario Public School Spelling Book [65] spelled most words in the -ize form, but allowed for duality with a page insert as late as the 1970s, noting that, although the -ize spelling was in fact the convention used in the OED, the choice to spell such words in the -ise form was a matter of ...