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Category: Vocabulary
International Phonetic Alphabet(s)? How many are there?
Before reading this post, you should be familiar with the International Phonetic Alphabet and Phonemic Alphabets. You may also want to read IPA: History, Functionality, and Limitations as well. The shower answer to this question is that there is only one International Phonetic Alphabet, the one created in 1888 by the International Phonetic Association. However…
IPA: Who uses the International Phonetic Alphabet?
Before reading this post, you should be familiar with the International Phonetic Alphabet and Phonemic Alphabets. You may also want to read IPA: History, Functionality, and Limitations as well. IPA may be great for languages, but who actually uses it? The short answer is that the following types of people/professions may use IPA to varying…
Puns – Watt is Love? Baby don’t Hertz me, don’t Hertz me, no Morse
A pun is a joke that exploits the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings. Puns are rife in languages that have words called homophones, or multiple words that have the same or similar pronunciation but have different meanings. English is rife with…
What is the plural of ‘you’ ?
As anyone who is learning English will know, you will have come across the fact that English seems to be missing a way to address more than one person, but does it really? Is there a plural of ‘you’? Is ‘you’ plural? History Old English – a plethora To answer this question, we need to…
