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10 hours ago · In English, acronyms pronounced as words may be a twentieth-century phenomenon. Linguist David Wilton in Word Myths: Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends claims that "forming words from acronyms is a distinctly twentieth- (and now twenty-first-) century phenomenon. There is only one known pre-twentieth-century [English] word with an acronymic ...
10 hours ago · There are various systems for romanization of Cyrillic text, including transliteration to convey Cyrillic spelling in Latin letters, and transcription to convey pronunciation. Standard Cyrillic-to-Latin transliteration systems include: Scientific transliteration, used in linguistics, is based on the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet.
10 hours ago · The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family.They include Arabic, Amharic, Aramaic, Hebrew, and numerous other ancient and modern languages.They are spoken by more than 330 million people across much of West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Malta, and in large immigrant and expatriate communities in North America, Europe, and Australasia.
10 hours ago · There is no such thing as "necro-posting" on this blog, and thus no need to use that term. I will delete any comments that simply point out typos. If you want to use the commenting system to alert me to them, great, I appreciate it, but there's no reason to leave such comments preserved for posterity. I'm sorry for any difficulty commenting.
10 hours ago · Today’s pangram is CLICKABLE.. The word CLICKABLE has no known definition.. The word ABACI has no known definition.. ABACK is defined as . ACACIA is defined as any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
10 hours ago · Moses Mountain Top Experiences. Moses received the call from God. to return to Egypt in. Exodus 3:1–6, 12. Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. And the Angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of ...
10 hours ago · There are many languages that use two or more scripts, for example Latin or Arabic. In Belarusian and Ukrainian there is an apostrophe to indicate de-palatalization of the preceding consonant. Azerbaijani has the apostrophe ʼ as a letter. Nenets has the apostrophe ʼ and double apostrophe ˮ as letters. References
