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  2. Portuguese orthography - Wikipedia

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    Typewritten text in Portuguese; note the acute accent, tilde, and circumflex accent.. Portuguese orthography is based on the Latin alphabet and makes use of the acute accent, the circumflex accent, the grave accent, the tilde, and the cedilla to denote stress, vowel height, nasalization, and other sound changes.

  3. Portuguese profanity - Wikipedia

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    "Cabrão" male-only term used for men who have cheated. [3]"Caralho" (IU) is a swear word for penis and can be used as an interjection.One possible folk etymology relates it to a ship's crow's nest, and the negative connotation from the expression "vai para o caralho", meaning "go to the crow's nest", because of the heavy rocking of ships in the high sea.

  4. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks - Wikipedia

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    Dotted circle (Used as a generic placeholder when describing diacritics) Combining Diacritical Marks ⹀ ⸗ Double hyphen: Almost equal to … Ellipsis = Equals sign ℮ Estimated sign! Exclamation mark: Inverted exclamation mark, Interrobang: ª: Feminine ordinal indicator: Masculine ordinal indicator, Degree sign (many) Fleuron: Dinkus ...

  5. Diacritic - Wikipedia

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    The word diacritic is a noun, though it is sometimes used in an attributive sense, whereas diacritical is only an adjective. Some diacritics, such as the acute ó , grave ò , and circumflex ô (all shown above an 'o'), are often called accents. Diacritics may appear above or below a letter or in some other position such as within the letter or ...

  6. International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Phonetic pitch and phonemic tone may be indicated by either diacritics placed over the nucleus of the syllable – e.g., high-pitch é – or by Chao tone letters placed either before or after the word or syllable. There are three graphic variants of the tone letters: with or without a stave, and facing left or facing right from the stave.

  7. Druggy period drama Dope Girls struggles to hit the ... - AOL

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    Dope Girls never quite puts it all out there; never quite sings. Visually, there’s mild trippiness instead of the flat-out derangement demanded by the subject matter. Eventually, the show feels ...

  8. What does ‘babygirl’ mean? Defining the Gen Z slang - AOL

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    The term "babygirl" originated from Gen Z fan language. On Urban Dictionary , one user explained the term as "a male character who does questionable things but is so sad and pathetic you can’t ...

  9. Glossary of early twentieth century slang in the United States

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    Notes Works cited References External links 0-9 S.S. Kresge Lunch Counter and Soda Fountain, about 1920 86 Main article: 86 1. Soda-counter term meaning an item was no longer available 2. "Eighty-six" means to discard, eliminate, or deny service A A-1 First class abe's cabe 1. Five dollar bill 2. See fin, a fiver, half a sawbuck absent treatment Engaging in dance with a cautious partner ab-so ...