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  2. List of irregularly spelled places in the United States

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    like charter / ˈ tʃ ɑːr t ər / Charlevoix, Michigan: SHAR-lə-voy / ˈ ʃ ɑːr l ə v ɔɪ / Charlotte, Vermont: shar-LOT / ʃ ɑːr ˈ l ɒ t / Also the place in New York Chatham, Massachusetts: CHAT-əm / ˈ tʃ æ t əm / Also the places in New York and New Jersey Chauncey, Ohio: CHAN-see / ˈ tʃ æ n s i / Cheesequake, New Jersey ...

  3. List of irregularly spelt places in the United Kingdom

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    like Belzer / ˈ b ɛ l z ər / England: Beaulieu [2] BEW-lee / ˈ b j uː l i / England: Bellingham, Northumberland [2] BEL-in-jəm / ˈ b ɛ l ɪ n dʒ ə m / England: Belvoir Castle: like beaver / ˈ b iː v ər / England: Berkeley [2] like Barkley / ˈ b ɑːr k l i / All UK placenames England: Berwick-upon-Tweed [2] BERR-ik / ˈ b ɛr ɪ k ...

  4. Great Northern - Wikipedia

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    Great Northern bean, a white common bean; Great Northern Brewing Co., an Australian beer manufacturer; Great Northern (country band), led by former Mission Mountain Wood Band member Rob Quist; Great northern diver (Gavia immer), a bird also known as the common loon; Great Northern Elevator, a historic grain elevator in Buffalo, New York

  5. Inland Northern American English - Wikipedia

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    Speakers around the Great Lakes began to pronounce the short a sound, /æ/ as in TRAP, as more of a diphthong and with a higher starting point in the mouth, causing the same word to sound more like "tree-ap" or "tree-up"; Labov et al. assume that this began by the middle of the 19th century. [23]

  6. Anglicisation of names - Wikipedia

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    As Gaelic spelling rules required the first letter of a name preceded by Mac or Nic to be lenited (providing it was a consonant other than l, n, or r, which are not generally lenited in Gaelic, or c or g; although in the case of the last two, they are lenited when the intended connotation is "son/daughter of" rather than a surname.

  7. Great Northern Railway (U.S.) - Wikipedia

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    The Great Northern Railway is considered to have inspired (in broad outline, not in specific details) the Taggart Transcontinental railroad in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. [26] The song Great Northern by the Western band Riders In The Sky featured on their 2002 album Ridin' The Tweetsie Railroad describes a journey along the Great Northern ...

  8. Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

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    The word "peeler" of similar origin, is used in Northern Ireland. Bob's your uncle "there you go", "it's that simple". [37] (Some areas of US have the phrase Bob's your uncle, Fanny's your aunt) bod a person [38] [39] bodge a cheap or poor (repair) job, can range from inelegant but effective to outright failure. e.g.

  9. Great Northern Expedition - Wikipedia

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    The central goals in Bering's vision for the new expedition was the survey of the northern coast of the Russian Empire; the expansion of the port of Okhotsk as the gateway to the Pacific Ocean; the search for a sea route to North America and Japan; the opening of access to Siberian natural resources; and finally, the securing of Russian ...