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  2. Dummy pronoun - Wikipedia

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    One of the most common uses of dummy pronouns is with weather verbs, such as in the phrases "it is snowing" or "it is hot."[11] In these sentences, the verb (to snow, to rain, etc.) is usually considered semantically impersonal even though it appears syntactically intransitive; in this view, the required it in "it is snowing" is a dummy word that does not refer.

  3. Spivak pronoun - Wikipedia

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    The precise history of the Spivak pronouns is unclear, since they appear to have been independently created multiple times. The first recorded [1] use of the pronouns was in a January 1890 editorial by James Rogers, who derives e, es, and em from he and them in response to the proposed thon. [2]

  4. Elle (Spanish pronoun) - Wikipedia

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    Elle (Spanish pronunciation:, or less commonly plural: elles) is a proposed non-normative personal pronoun [1] [2] in Spanish intended as a grammatically ungendered alternative to the third-person gender-specific pronouns él ("he"), ella ("she") and ello ("it").

  5. Hen (pronoun) - Wikipedia

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    Attempts to introduce hen as a gender-neutral pronoun date back to 1966 when linguist Rolf Dunås suggested it in the regional newspaper Upsala Nya Tidning.In 1994, it was again proposed by linguist Hans Karlgren in the national newspaper Svenska Dagbladet as a practical alternative to more complicated literary alternatives, noting its similarity to Finnish hän. [5]

  6. Praktica - Wikipedia

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    Praktica EE2 SLR from 1977 Pentacon Praktica VLC2 with Carl Zeiss Jena Flektogon 20/2.8 mounted Praktica BC1 from the early 1980s Praktica B100 electronic. 1887 Richard Hüttig founded the first camera manufacturing company in Dresden.

  7. Rio de Janeiro - Wikipedia

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    Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese: [ˈʁi.u d(ʒi) ʒɐˈne(j)ɾu] ⓘ [6]), or simply Rio, [7] is the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro.It is the second-most-populous city in Brazil (after São Paulo) and the sixth-most-populous city in the Americas.

  8. Microphone practice - Wikipedia

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    A didgeridoo miked with a small phantom powered condenser microphone that clips onto the instrument.. There are a number of well-developed microphone techniques used for recording musical, film, or voice sources or picking up sounds as part of sound reinforcement systems.

  9. Argentina - Wikipedia

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    Argentina, [C] officially the Argentine Republic, [A] [D] is a country in the southern half of South America.It covers an area of 2,780,085 km 2 (1,073,397 sq mi), [B] making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourth-largest country in the Americas, and the eighth-largest country in the world.