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  2. Upside-down question and exclamation marks - Wikipedia

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    Outside of the Spanish-speaking world, John Wilkins proposed using the upside-down exclamation mark "¡" as a symbol at the end of a sentence to denote irony in 1668. He was one of many, including Desiderius Erasmus , who felt there was a need for such a punctuation mark, but Wilkins' proposal, like the other attempts, failed to take hold.

  3. Reverse speech - Wikipedia

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    If played backwards, the words "small step for man" sound somewhat like "Man will spacewalk." [6] An alternative explanation for this phenomenon is pareidolia, the tendency of the human brain to perceive meaningful patterns in random noise. Pareidolia is even more likely to occur when a person consciously tries to detect a pattern, as is the ...

  4. Backward speech - Wikipedia

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    The trait of backward speech is described as an ability to spontaneously and accurately reverse words. Two strategies of word reversal were reported: reversal according to the phonetic structure of the words or reversal according to their spelling . [ 1 ]

  5. Wikipedia:Language recognition chart - Wikipedia

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    Sometimes, different Chinese characters are used to express the same meaning in Cantonese and Mandarin. If you use the one commonly used in Cantonese to express the same meaning when you are speaking or writing Mandarin, a native speaker may be confused or even find it difficult to understand, and vice versa.

  6. Phonetic reversal - Wikipedia

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    Strictly speaking, a reversal of phonemes will still result in allophones appropriate for the new position; for example, if a word with a final /t/ is reversed so that the /t/ is initial, the initial /t/ will be aspirated in line with the conventional allophonic patterns of English phonology.

  7. 'Why do we have to bend over backward?': Man lectures ... - AOL

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    A woman captured the moment a man subjected a group of Asian women to racist remarks at a train station in Canada. Donna Damaso uploaded the clip to TikTok on Sunday of a masked man berating two ...

  8. Watch: Patrick Mahomes makes behind-the-back pass after ... - AOL

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    Kelce joined the broadcast during the fourth quarter and offered a different story. Kelce confirmed he didn't run the correct route, but stated that it was actually because of Mahomes, effectively ...

  9. Assimilation (phonology) - Wikipedia

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    The study discussed in this paper focuses on how children in pre-school analyze the phonetic aspect of language in order to determine the proper spelling of English words. Read noticed that many of the children involved in the study misspelled words that began with /tr, dr/ , spelling words like troubles and dragon as "chribls" and "jragin ...