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For the distinction between [ ], / / and , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In English phonology, t-glottalization or t-glottalling is a sound change in certain English dialects and accents, particularly in the United Kingdom, that causes the phoneme / t / to be pronounced as the glottal stop [ ʔ] ⓘ in certain positions.
Tonga. Tahiti. Windward Islands, French Polynesia. Overseas Lands of France. Tai A Chau. Soko Islands, Hong Kong. China. Tairajima. Tokara Islands part of the Satsunan Islands part of the Ryukyu Islands.
The apostrophe ( ' or ’) is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other alphabets. In English, the apostrophe is used for three basic purposes: The marking of the omission of one or more letters, e.g. the contraction of "do not" to "don't".
This is a list of candidates for the longest English word of one syllable, i.e. monosyllables with the most letters. A list of 9,123 English monosyllables published in 1957 includes three ten-letter words: scraunched, scroonched, and squirreled. Guinness World Records lists scraunched and strengthed. Other sources include words as long or longer.
TE. te – (s) Telugu language (ISO 639-1 code) Te – (s) Tellurium. TE – (i) Tactical Exploitation – (p) Testosterone to Epitestosterone ratio – (i) Tight end (American football; position generally not used in modern Canadian football) TEAL – (a) Tasman Empire Airways Limited. Team – (a) Together everyone achieves more.
Letter frequency is the number of times letters of the alphabet appear on average in written language. Letter frequency analysis dates back to the Arab mathematician Al-Kindi ( c. 801 –873 AD), who formally developed the method to break ciphers. Letter frequency analysis gained importance in Europe with the development of movable type in 1450 ...
List of English words with disputed usage. List of English–Spanish interlingual homographs. List of ethnic slurs. List of generic and genericized trademarks. List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English. List of self-contradicting words in English. Lists of Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year. Most common words in English.
In typesetting, widows and orphans are single lines of text from a paragraph that dangle at either the beginning or end of a block of text, or form a very short final line at the end of a paragraph. When split across pages, they occur at either the head or foot of a page (or column ), unaccompanied by additional lines from the same paragraph.