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/ʐ/ can be spelt either ż or rz ; the spelling rz indicates that the sound developed from /r̝/ (cf. Czech ř ). ż is used: when cognate words or other morphological forms have the letter/digraph g , dz , h , z , ź , s , e.g.: może – mogę mosiężny – mosiądz drużyna – druh
Its pronunciation is the same as that of the digraph rz , except that rz (unlike ż ) also undergoes devoicing when preceded by a voiceless obstruent. The difference in spelling comes from their historical pronunciations: ż originates from a palatalized /ɡ/ or /z/, while rz evolved from a palatalized r . [1]
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 .
E–Z configuration, or the E–Z convention, is the IUPAC preferred method of describing the absolute stereochemistry of double bonds in organic chemistry. It is an extension of cis – trans isomer notation (which only describes relative stereochemistry ) that can be used to describe double bonds having two, three or four substituents .
The Elder Futhark rune ᛉ is conventionally called Algiz or Elhaz, from the Common Germanic word for "elk". [citation needed]There is wide agreement that this is most likely not the historical name of the rune, but in the absence of any positive evidence of what the historical name may have been, the conventional name is simply based on a reading of the rune name in the Anglo-Saxon rune poem ...
This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends that begin with the letter E. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as if it were a word, e.g., SARS = severe acute respiratory syndrome , pronounced to rhyme with cars
Ę (minuscule: ę; Polish: e z ogonkiem, "e with a little tail"; Lithuanian: e nosinė, "nasal e") is a letter in the Polish, Lithuanian, and Dalecarlian alphabets. It is also used in Navajo to represent the nasal vowel [ẽ] and Kensiu to represent the near-open near-front unrounded vowel [e̝] .
Normative Swedish language spelling dictionary, which includes only commonly used words, currently includes ~126,000 words, [81] after having added 13,500 and removed 9,000 in its latest edition, SAOL 14, plus an additional 200,000 still encountered words in earlier editions. [82] [83] Eastern Armenian: 125,000