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  2. Fe'i banana - Wikipedia

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    A Samoan legend is that the mountain banana and the lowland banana fought. The mountain banana – the Fe'i banana – won. Filled with pride at its victory, the mountain banana raised its head high, whereas the defeated lowland banana never raised its head again. [3] (Fe'i bananas have an upright fruiting stem, whereas the fruiting stem droops ...

  3. Sound correspondences between English accents - Wikipedia

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    In the vowels chart, a separate phonetic value is given for each major dialect, alongside the words used to name their corresponding lexical sets. The diaphonemes for the lexical sets given here are based on RP and General American; they are not sufficient to express all of the distinctions found in other dialects, such as Australian English.

  4. Oi (interjection) - Wikipedia

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    Oi / ɔɪ / is an interjection used in various varieties of the English language, particularly Australian English, British English, Indian English, Irish English, New Zealand English, and South African English, as well as non-English languages such as Chinese, Tagalog, Tamil, Hindi/Urdu, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, and Portuguese to get the attention of another person or to express surprise ...

  5. The Internet Is 'Going Bananas' Over the Real Meaning of '4011'

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    Banana (4011) is the one I type most. Followed by lemons (4053), limes (4048), sweet potato (4816), and English cucumber (4593). 4077 is popular right now, because corn. 4225, avocado.

  6. A Banana Taped to a Wall Could Sell for Over $1 Million - AOL

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    Literally a banana duct-taped to a wall. While some saw it as a stroke of genius and dissected its possible underlying meaning, others were in an uproar over how outlandish they thought it was ...

  7. American and British English pronunciation differences

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    The pronunciation of the vowel of the prefix di-in words such as dichotomy, digest (verb), dilate, dilemma, dilute, diluvial, dimension, direct, dissect, disyllable, divagate, diverge, diverse, divert, divest, and divulge as well as their derivational forms vary between / aɪ / and / ɪ / or / ə / in both British and American English.

  8. The Story Behind the Banana Split - AOL

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    According to sources such as vueweekly.com, banana splits came to life in 1904. Created by David Evans Strickler, a young 23-year-old apprentice at a pharmacy in Pennsylvania, these dishes served ...

  9. List of South African slang words - Wikipedia

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    Due to code-switching, the English pronunciation (in its original meaning) is also regularly used by Afrikaners, though it is separated from the Afrikaans pronunciation's meaning. For example: Ek moet die video pause (Eng pro.) omdat ons nou op pause (Afr pro.) gaan.