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An argosy is a merchant ship, [1] [2] or a fleet of such ships. As used by Shakespeare (e.g., in King Henry VI , Part 3, Act 2, Scene VI; in the Merchant of Venice , Act 1, Scene I and Scene III; and in The Taming of the Shrew , Act 2, Scene I), the word means a flotilla of merchant ships operating together under the same ownership.
Argosy Foundation, formerly the Abele Family Charitable Trust; Argosy Gaming Company, a former American casino operator; Argosy Empress Casino, a riverboat casino; Argosy Pictures, John Ford's film company; Argosy Property Limited, a company listed on the New Zealand stock exchange; Argosy University, educational institutions in North America
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).
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 ...
Argosy University was a private for-profit university with campuses throughout the United States owned by Dream Center Education Holdings (DCEH), LLC and Education Management Corporation. On February 27, 2019, the U.S. Department of Education stated that they were cutting off federal funding to Argosy University. [ 2 ]
Gathering of the Argonauts, Attic red-figure krater, 460–450 BC (Louvre G 341) The Argonauts (/ ˈ ɑːr ɡ ə n ɔː t / AR-gə-nawt; Ancient Greek: Ἀργοναῦται, romanized: Argonaûtai, lit.
If the pronunciation in a specific accent is desired, square brackets may be used, perhaps with a link to IPA chart for English dialects, which describes several national standards, or with a comment that the pronunciation is General American, Received Pronunciation, Australian English, etc. Local pronunciations are of particular interest in ...
★ Hedges (2017) acknowledges that the two pronunciations marked by this star are discrepancies of her latent class analysis, since they conflict with Vaux (2004)'s surveys. Conversely, the surveys show that /æ/ is the much more common vowel for pajamas in the West, and /ɔɪ/ and /ɔj/ are in fact both common variants for lawyer in the Midland.