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3 days ago · What sound do these words have in common? This is the 4th diphthong programme in our series of videos about English sounds.
3 days ago · The rhotic dialects of English include most of those in Scotland, Ireland, the United States, and Canada. As of the 21st century, the non-rhotic dialects include those in Wales, Australia and South Africa, and most of those in England and New Zealand.
4 days ago · Hundreds of civilians were deported to Germany in railway cattle cars. In the fire, around 300,000 books, 800 incunabula (books printed until 1500 in the first years after the invention of typographic printing) and 1,000 manuscripts were lost forever.
1 day ago · The International Phonetic Alphabet ( IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standardized representation of speech sounds in written form. [1]
There was a book I read as a kid, it's kind of geared toward preteens I suppose? It's a book about a kid who stumbles upon something, I can't remember if it's a door handle or a sword or something but he touches it and it burns his palm.The burn leaves a mark that resembles a dragon.I can't remember anything else about the story other than there is a dragon in it.
17 hours ago · The Library of Congress began a multiyear "Celebration of the Book" in July 2012 with an exhibition on Books That Shaped America, and an initial list of 88 books by American authors that have influenced American lives. Gone with the Wind was included in the Library's list. Librarian of Congress, James H. Billington said: This list is a starting ...
3 days ago · Police say hundreds of Muslims in eastern Pakistan went on a rampage over allegations that a Christian man had desecrated the pages of Islam’s holy book, ransacking and burning his house and beating him before police officers rescued the man and his father.
