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  2. Ai (poet) - Wikipedia

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    Ai told Farnsworth that she got the idea from watching a The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Carson had told a joke that inspired Ai to write the poem. After she decided to write the poem, she found a biography on Hoffa and studied it before writing the piece. Ai said that she often reads biographies before writing a poem on an historical ...

  3. Rhyme - Wikipedia

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    Words ending in a stressed vowel (e.g., вода́) can only rhyme with other words which share the consonant preceding the vowel (e.g., когда́). Words ending in a stressed vowel preceded by another vowel, as well as words ending in a stressed vowel preceded by /j/, can all be rhymed with each other: моя́, тая́ and чья all rhyme.

  4. Great Vowel Shift - Wikipedia

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    Diagram of the changes in English vowels during the Great Vowel Shift. The Great Vowel Shift was a series of pronunciation changes in the vowels of the English language that took place primarily between the 1400s and 1600s [1] (the transition period from Middle English to Early Modern English), beginning in southern England and today having influenced effectively all dialects of English.

  5. Sindarin - Wikipedia

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    Diphthongs are ai (pronounced like aisle [aɪ]), ei (day [ɛɪ]), ui (ruin [ʊɪ]), and au (cow [aʊ]). If the last diphthong finishes a word, it is spelt aw . There are also diphthongs ae and oe with no English counterparts, similar to pronouncing a or o respectively in the same syllable as one pronounces an e (as in p e t); IPA [aɛ, ɔɛ] .

  6. AI chatbot calls itself ‘useless,’ writes elaborate poem ...

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    An AI-enabled chatbot for the European parcel delivery company DPD called itself “useless” and said the company it was built for was “the worst delivery firm in the world,” after a ...

  7. Ai (Indic) - Wikipedia

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    Odia independent vowel and vowel sign Ai. Ai (ଐ) is a vowel of the Odia abugida. It ultimately arose from the Brahmi letter , via the Siddhaṃ letter ai. Like in other Indic scripts, Odia vowels have two forms: an independent letter for word and syllable-initial vowel sounds, and a vowel sign for changing the inherent "a" of consonant letters.

  8. I before E except after C - Wikipedia

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    Later, the meet–meat merger saw the vowel in many [eː] words change to [iː], so that meat became a homonym of meet, while conceive now rhymed with believe. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Early Modern English spelling was not fixed; many words were spelled with ie and ei interchangeably, in printed works of the 17th century and private correspondence of ...

  9. Gothic language - Wikipedia

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    ai is used for the sound derived from the Common Germanic long vowel ē before a vowel. áu is used for the sound derived from Common Germanic diphthong au. It cannot be related to a Greek digraph, since αυ then represented a sequence of a vowel and a spirant consonant, which Ulfilas transcribed as aw in representing Greek words. Nevertheless ...