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Eleuthera forms a part of the Great Bahama Bank. [2] The island of Eleuthera incorporates the smaller Harbour Island. "Eleuthera" derives from the feminine form of the Greek adjective ἐλεύθερος (eleútheros), meaning "free". [3] Known in the 17th century as Cigateo, it lies 80 km (50 miles) east of Nassau. It is long and thin—180 km ...
This is a set of lists of English personal and place names having spellings that are counterintuitive to their pronunciation because the spelling does not accord with conventional pronunciation associations. Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages.
Received Pronunciation has been the subject of many academic studies, [2] and is frequently used as a model for teaching English to foreign learners. [ 3 ] [ page needed ] The widely repeated claim that only about two percent of Britons speak RP [ 2 ] is no more than a rough estimate and has been questioned by several writers, most notably by ...
The merger occurs most often in the speech of Abaco and north Eleuthera. [5] Some speakers have merged /v/ and /w/ into a single phoneme and pronounce words with [v] or [w] depending on context (the latter appearing in word-initial position and the former appearing elsewhere). [6]
Freetown is an area in the Bahamas located on the island of Eleuthera. As of 2018, it had a population of about 100. As of 2018, it had a population of about 100. It should not be confused with the Freetown parliamentary constituency on the island of New Providence , which saw 4,004 votes cast in the 2017 election. [ 1 ]
North Eleuthera is one of the districts of the Bahamas, on the island of Eleuthera. It has a population (2010 census) of 3,247. It has a population (2010 census) of 3,247. [ 1 ]
Phonemic notation commonly uses IPA symbols that are rather close to the default pronunciation of a phoneme, but for legibility often uses simple and 'familiar' letters rather than precise notation, for example /r/ and /o/ for the English [ɹʷ] and [əʊ̯] sounds, or /c, ɟ/ for [t͜ʃ, d͜ʒ] as mentioned above.
South Eleuthera is one of the districts of the Bahamas, on the island of Eleuthera. The district had a population of 4,955 in 2010. [ 1 ] Tarpum Bay and Rock Sound are the largest settlements.