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  2. Pronunciation of Ancient Greek in teaching - Wikipedia

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    Pronunciation of Ancient Greek in French secondary schools is based on Erasmian pronunciation, but it is modified to match the phonetics and even, in the case of αυ and ευ, the orthography of French. Vowel length distinction, geminate consonants and pitch accent are discarded completely, which matches the current phonology of Standard French.

  3. Aodh (given name) - Wikipedia

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    The name means "fire" and was the name of a god in Irish mythology. [2] [3] The name features in the Irish surnames Mac Aodha (lit. "son of Aodh"; anglicized as McGee/McHugh/McKee) and Ó hAodha (lit. "descendant of Aodh"; anglicized as Hayes/Hughes/O'Hea), and the Scottish surname Mac Aoidh (lit. "son of Aodh"; anglicized McKay).

  4. Wikipedia:WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia/Pronunciation task ...

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    The pronunciation should begin with half a second of silence, and finish with one second of silence, to avoid truncation by some players. See also wikt:Help:Audio pronunciations. Upload the pronunciation to Wikimedia Commons using the Upload Wizard. At the "Release rights" step, it is recommended to select "Use a different license" and then ...

  5. Origen - Wikipedia

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    Origen bases his theology on the Christian scriptures [157] [191] [173] [150] and does not appeal to Platonic teachings without having first supported his argument with a scriptural basis. [ 157 ] [ 192 ] He saw the scriptures as divinely inspired [ 157 ] [ 191 ] [ 173 ] [ 193 ] and was cautious never to contradict his own interpretation of ...

  6. List of irregularly spelled English names - Wikipedia

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    Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs, which are written differently but pronounced the same).

  7. Moses (given name) - Wikipedia

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    According to the Torah, the name "Moses" comes from the Hebrew verb, meaning "to pull out/draw out" [of water], and the infant Moses was given this name by Pharaoh's daughter after she rescued him from the Nile (Exodus 2:10) [9] Since the rise of Egyptology and decipherment of hieroglyphs, it was postulated that the name of Moses, with a ...

  8. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Pronunciation

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    Normally, pronunciation is given only for the subject of the article in its lead section. For non-English words and names, use the pronunciation key for the appropriate language. If a common English rendering of the non-English name exists (Venice, Nikita Khrushchev), its pronunciation, if necessary, should be indicated before the non-English one.

  9. Isaac (name) - Wikipedia

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    Isaac is a given name derived from Judaism and a given name among Jewish, Christian, and Muslim societies, generally in reference to the above. " Ike " and "Ise" are also short forms of the name. Forms of the name in different languages