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  2. List of onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 January 2025. This is a list of onomatopoeias, i.e. words that imitate, resemble, or suggest the source of the sound that they describe. For more information, see the linked articles. Human vocal sounds Achoo, Atishoo, the sound of a sneeze Ahem, a sound made to clear the throat or to draw attention ...

  3. Tautogram - Wikipedia

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    Out of these three, a total of 7,000 words have been used in the first, 10,000 words in the second and about 10,000 words in the third and each word begins with the same letter. [2] [3] [4] This is the single and larger effort of tautogram in Bengali literature. An example of a tautogram in Bengali is a story with all words starting with "K" :

  4. 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:

  5. Voiceless dental and alveolar plosives - Wikipedia

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    The [t] sound is a very common sound cross-linguistically. [1] Most languages have at least a plain [t], and some distinguish more than one variety. Some languages without a [t] are colloquial Samoan (which also lacks an [n]), Abau, and Nǁng of South Africa. [citation needed]

  6. 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 ...

  7. T-glottalization - Wikipedia

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    let's start [lɛʔ stɑː(ɹ)ʔ] what [wɒʔ] or [wɐʔ] foot [fʊʔ] T-glottalization is believed to have been spreading in Southern England at a faster rate than th-fronting [citation needed]. Cruttenden comments that "Use of [ʔ] for /t/ word-medially intervocalically, as in water, still remains stigmatised in GB. [16]" (GB is his ...

  8. Pentagraph - Wikipedia

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    A pentagraph (from the Greek: πέντε, pénte, "five" and γράφω, gráphō, "write") is a sequence of five letters used to represent a single sound (phoneme), or a combination of sounds, that do not correspond to the individual values of the letters. [1]

  9. List of consonants - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of all the consonants which have a dedicated letter in the International Phonetic Alphabet, plus some of the consonants which require diacritics, ordered by place and manner of articulation.