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  2. English possessive - Wikipedia

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    The possessive form of an English noun, or more generally a noun phrase, is made by suffixing a morpheme which is represented orthographically as ' s (the letter s preceded by an apostrophe), and is pronounced in the same way as the regular English plural ending (e)s: namely, as / ɪ z / when following a sibilant sound (/ s /, / z /, / ʃ /, / ʒ /, / tʃ / or / dʒ /), as / s / when following ...

  3. Possessive - Wikipedia

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    The personal pronouns of many languages correspond to both a set of possessive determiners and a set of possessive pronouns.For example, the English personal pronouns I, you, he, she, it, we and they correspond to the possessive determiners my, your, his, her, its, our and their and also to the (substantive) possessive pronouns mine, yours, his, hers, its (rare), ours and theirs.

  4. Wikipedia:Database download - Wikipedia

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    Windows 8, 10, and Server 2012 have a 256 TB limit for all file sizes. Linux. 32-bit kernel 2.4.x systems have a 2 TB limit for all file systems. 64-bit kernel 2.4.x systems have an 8 EB limit for all file systems. 32-bit kernel 2.6.x systems without option CONFIG_LBD have a 2 TB limit for all file systems.

  5. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    The possessive form can be used either as a determiner (Manyanda's cat) or as a noun phrase (Manyanda's is the one next to Jane's). The status of the possessive as an affix or a clitic is the subject of debate. [6] [7] It differs from the noun inflection of languages such as German, in that the genitive ending may attach to the last word of the ...

  6. English Pronouncing Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The English Pronouncing Dictionary (EPD) was created by the British phonetician Daniel Jones and was first published in 1917. [1] It originally comprised over 50,000 headwords listed in their spelling form, each of which was given one or more pronunciations transcribed using a set of phonemic symbols based on a standard accent.

  7. Moby Project - Wikipedia

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    The file contains lines of the format word[/part-of-speech] pronunciation. Each line is ended with the ASCII carriage return character (CR, '\r', 0x0D, 13 in decimal). The word field can include apostrophes (e.g. isn't), hyphens (e.g. able-bodied), and multiple words separated by underscores (e.g. monkey_wrench). Non-English words are generally ...

  8. English phonology - Wikipedia

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    The following table shows the 24 consonant phonemes found in most dialects of English, plus /x/, whose distribution is more limited. Fortis consonants are always voiceless, aspirated in syllable onset (except in clusters beginning with /s/ or /ʃ/), and sometimes also glottalized to an extent in syllable coda (most likely to occur with /t/, see T-glottalization), while lenis consonants are ...

  9. WordWeb - Wikipedia

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    These details appear in three separate tabs. Version 6 added audio pronunciations and support for third-party Oxford and Chambers add-on dictionaries. WordWeb 7 was mainly a content upgrade, with revised definition and sound databases, but it also had significantly updated one-click support for the latest browsers and 64-bit programs.