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  2. Bamboozle! - Wikipedia

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    Each game originally had 25 questions, later reduced to 20, then 15 and eventually 12; on a very few special occasions there were 30 questions. At one point in the quiz's history, the red, yellow and green keys were sensible answers and the blue was mostly reserved for a comical response (which was occasionally the correct one).

  3. Checked and free vowels - Wikipedia

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    Written consonant doubling often shows the vowel is checked; the i of dinner corresponds to checked / ɪ / because of the double consonants nn; the i of diner corresponds to free / aɪ / because of the single consonant n. This, however, interferes with the differences in doubling rules between American and British styles of spelling. [9]

  4. Gemination - Wikipedia

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    Double consonants are common on morpheme borders where the initial or final sound of the suffix is the same as the final or initial sound of the stem (depending on the position of the suffix), after devoicing. Examples: przedtem /ˈpʂɛtːɛm/ – 'before, previously'; from przed (suffix 'before') + tem (archaic 'that')

  5. Double consonant - Wikipedia

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    Double consonant ("doubled consonant", "consonant doubling", etc.) may refer to: Gemination, the doubling or lengthening of the pronunciation of a consonant sound; A ...

  6. Word wall - Wikipedia

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    [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. Many variations of the word wall are currently in existence, including those featuring illustrations of the words and color-coded lists.

  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. Mnemonic major system - Wikipedia

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    The link is to the sound, not the letter. (For example, the letters C in "cat", "Cynthia", and "cello" each have different values in the system – 7, 0, and 6, respectively.) Vowels, semivowels and the consonant /h/ are ignored. These can be used as "fillers" to make sensible words from the resulting consonant sequences. A standard mapping [2] is:

  9. Doubly articulated consonant - Wikipedia

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    Doubly articulated consonants are consonants with two simultaneous primary places of articulation of the same manner (both plosive, or both nasal, etc.). They are a subset of co-articulated consonants. They are to be distinguished from co-articulated consonants with secondary articulation; that is, a