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  2. Word wall - Wikipedia

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    High schools teachers use word walls in their respective content areas to teach spelling, vocabulary words, and mathematics symbols. [ 6 ] Word walls are considered to be interactive and collaborative tools, as they are a student-created learning artifact due to their flexible nature and ability to "grow" alongside the students.

  3. French orthography - Wikipedia

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    French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language.It is based on a combination of phonemic and historical principles. The spelling of words is largely based on the pronunciation of Old French c. 1100 –1200 AD, and has stayed more or less the same since then, despite enormous changes to the pronunciation of the language in the intervening years.

  4. French phonology - Wikipedia

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    French phonology is the sound system of French.This article discusses mainly the phonology of all the varieties of Standard French.Notable phonological features include its uvular r, nasal vowels, and three processes affecting word-final sounds:

  5. Des chiffres et des lettres - Wikipedia

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    Des chiffres et des lettres (French: [de ʃifʁ e de lɛtʁ]; "Numbers and Letters") is a French television programme which originally aired from 1965 to 2024. It was created by Armand Jammot and tests the numeracy skills and vocabulary of two contestants.

  6. Reforms of French orthography - Wikipedia

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    Spelling and punctuation before the 16th century was highly erratic, but the introduction of printing in 1470 provoked the need for uniformity.. Several Renaissance humanists (working with publishers) proposed reforms in French orthography, the most famous being Jacques Peletier du Mans who developed a phonemic-based spelling system and introduced new typographic signs (1550).

  7. Numeral (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    It is much easier to divide the base digit twelve (which is a highly composite number) by many important divisors in market and trade settings, such as the numbers 2, 3, 4 and 6. Because of several measurements based on twelve, [ 21 ] many Western languages have words for base-twelve units such as dozen , gross and great gross , which allow for ...

  8. Spelling pronunciation - Wikipedia

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    A spelling pronunciation is the pronunciation of a word according to its spelling when this differs from a longstanding standard or traditional pronunciation. Words that are spelled with letters that were never pronounced or that were not pronounced for many generations or even hundreds of years have increasingly been pronounced as written, especially since the arrival of mandatory schooling ...

  9. Grammatical number - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, grammatical number is a feature of nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one", "two" or "three or more"). [1] English and many other languages present number categories of singular or plural. Some languages also have a dual, trial and paucal number or other arrangements.