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  2. List of Latin-script digraphs - Wikipedia

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    In words, mostly of Latin origin, where ä and u are separated by a syllable boundary, it represents /ɛ.ʊ/, e.g. Matthäus (a German form for Matthew). aw is used in English in ways that parallel English au , though it appears more often at the end of a word.

  3. Welsh orthography - Wikipedia

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    However, not all polysyllabic words with final stress are marked with the acute accent (Cymraeg "Welsh" and ymlaen "forward/onward", for example, are written with none). The acute may also be used to indicate that a letter w represents a vowel where a glide might otherwise be expected, e.g. gẃraidd /ˈɡʊ.raið/ (two syllables) "manly", as ...

  4. Apologetic apostrophe - Wikipedia

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    Many words in Scots have both a full form and a contracted form. In contracted forms, an apostrophe is generally used in place of the elided graphemes , for example, e'en and even , e'er and iver (ever), eneu ' and eneuch (enough), lea ' and leave , ne'er and niver (never), ne'er's day and new year's day , nor'land and northland .

  5. Help:IPA/Arabic - Wikipedia

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    It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Arabic in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any symbol or value without establishing consensus on the talk page first.

  6. List of medical abbreviations: A - Wikipedia

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    AU: each ear (from Latin auris utraque) AUC: area under the curve (pharmacology) aur. ear (from Latin auris) aur. dextro. to right ear (from Latin auris dextrae) aur. laev: to left ear (from Latin auris laevae) aurist. ear drops (from Latin auristillae) AUS: Artificial urinary sphincter: AV: arteriovenous atrioventricular: AVF: arteriovenous ...

  7. Phonics - Wikipedia

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    Reading by using phonics is often referred to as decoding words, sounding-out words or using print-to-sound relationships.Since phonics focuses on the sounds and letters within words (i.e. sublexical), [13] it is often contrasted with whole language (a word-level-up philosophy for teaching reading) and a compromise approach called balanced literacy (the attempt to combine whole language and ...

  8. Monophthongization - Wikipedia

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    Another exception is the Sfax dialect of Tunisian Arabic, which is known mostly for keeping the Classical Arabic diphthongs /aj/ and /aw/. Some varieties might maintain the diphthong for words recently borrowed from Standard Arabic or use them in free variation .

  9. Open-mid back rounded vowel - Wikipedia

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    Its vowel height is open-mid, also known as low-mid, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between an open vowel (a low vowel) and a mid vowel.; Its vowel backness is back, which means the tongue is positioned back in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant.