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  2. Hard and soft G - Wikipedia

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    When suffixes are added to words ending with a hard or soft g (such as -ed, -ing, -er, -est, -ism, -ist, -edness, -ish(ness), -ily, -iness, -ier, -iest, -ingly, -edly, and -ishly), the sound is normally maintained. Sometimes the normal rules of spelling changes before suffixes can help signal whether the hard or soft sound is intended.

  3. Ge (Cyrillic) - Wikipedia

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    Ge, ghe, or he (Г г; italics: Г г) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Most commonly, it represents the voiced velar plosive / ɡ / , like g in " g ift", or the voiced glottal fricative [ ɦ ] , like h in " h eft".

  4. Silent letter - Wikipedia

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    Use of the silent letter ge in Faroese is the same as for the letter edd; it is written for historical reasons as Faroese orthography was based on normalised spelling of Old Norse and Icelandic language. Both Faroese silent letters edd and ge are replaced by a hiatus glide consonant (, or ) when followed by another (unstressed) vowel.

  5. -gry puzzle - Wikipedia

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    The answer is "energy". The riddle says that the word ends in the letters g-r-y; it says nothing about the order of the letters. Many words end with "-rgy", but energy is something everyone uses every day. There are at least three words in the English language that end in "g" or "y". One of them is "hungry", and another one is "angry".

  6. Sentence-final particle - Wikipedia

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    Sentence-final particles, including modal particles, [1] interactional particles, [2] etc., are minimal lexemes (words) that occur at the end of a sentence and that do not carry referential meaning, but may relate to linguistic modality, register or other pragmatic effects.

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  8. Suffix - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns and adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs.

  9. Silent e - Wikipedia

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    In English orthography, many words feature a silent e (single, final, non-syllabic ‘e’), most commonly at the end of a word or morpheme.Typically it represents a vowel sound that was formerly pronounced, but became silent in late Middle English or Early Modern English.