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• You can hear examples of non-English type sounds in the UCLA Phonetics Lab. Zulu has click consonants. K’echki has ejectives. Agul has pharyngeals and epiglottals. Mazatec has creaky and breathy voice. French has uvulars. Some dialects of Hebrew ...
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• The 1600s, according to the OED Online: 19. trans. slang. To have sexual intercourse with. ?c1620 in F. J. Furnivall Love-Poems & Humorous Ones (1874) 16 Blushe cherefully whilst I doe thee.
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• There are standard romanization rules for Arabic. In ISO 233 the name is ʾal-Qaḏḏāfī. In Libyan Arabic, the q is pronounced /g/ and ḏ is pronounced /d/, so Gaddafi is a good approximation of the Libyan pronunciation. As ...
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