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  2. English orthography - Wikipedia

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    Letters in English orthography positioned at one location within a specific word usually represent a particular phoneme.For example, at / ˈ æ t / consists of 2 letters a and t , which represent /æ/ and /t/, respectively.

  3. Serum protein electrophoresis - Wikipedia

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    Serum protein electrophoresis (SPEP or SPE) is a laboratory test that examines specific proteins in the blood called globulins. [1] The most common indications for a serum protein electrophoresis test are to diagnose or monitor multiple myeloma , a monoclonal gammopathy of uncertain significance (MGUS), or further investigate a discrepancy ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Wikipedia:List of spelling variants - Wikipedia

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    Some usages identified as American English are common in British English; e.g., disk for disc. A few listed words are more different words than different spellings: "aeroplane/airplane", "mum/mom". See also: American and British English differences, Wikipedia:List of common misspellings and Wikipedia:Manual of Style#National varieties of English

  6. List of mnemonics - Wikipedia

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    In most words like friend, field, piece, pierce, mischief, thief, tier, it is "i" which comes before "e". But on some words with c just before the pair of e and i , like re cei ve, per cei ve, " e " comes before " i " .

  7. Lists of English words - Wikipedia

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    List of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom; List of British words not widely used in the United States; List of South African English regionalisms; List of words having different meanings in American and British English: A–L; List of words having different meanings in American and British English: M–Z

  8. The New York Times Spelling Bee - Wikipedia

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    Each puzzle is guaranteed to have at least one pangram, a word containing at least one of each of the seven letters. Pangrams awards double points (e.g. a seven-letter pangram scores 14 points). [1] [2] If the player finds all of the possible words in a given puzzle, they achieve the title of "Queen Bee". [3] In 2021, the editor Sam Ezersky ...

  9. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    Schemes are words or phrases whose syntax, sequence, or pattern occurs in a manner that varies from an ordinary usage. Accumulatio: restating, through accumulation, already said arguments in a concise and forceful manner. Alliteration: the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.