U and non-U English usage, where "U" stands for upper class and "non-U" represents the aspiring middle classes, was part of the terminology of popular...
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American English (AmE), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States...
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In English, the letter Q is usually almost always followed immediately by the letter U, e.g. quiz, quarry, question, squirrel. However, there are some...
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vowels /iː/ and /uː/ are usually preserved, and in several areas also /oː/ and /eː/, as in go and say (unlike other varieties of English, that change them...
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⟨Ǜ ǜ⟩ ⟨Ǘ ǘ⟩ ⟨Ǚ ǚ⟩ ⟨Ǖ ǖ⟩ ⟨Ṳ ṳ⟩ ⟨Ú ú⟩ ⟨Ù ù⟩ ⟨Û û Ṷ ṷ⟩ ⟨Ǔ ǔ⟩ ⟨Ȗ ȗ⟩ ⟨Ű ű⟩ ⟨Ŭ ŭ⟩ ⟨Ư ư⟩ ⟨Ứ ứ⟩ ⟨Ừ ừ⟩ ⟨Ử ử⟩ ⟨Ự ự⟩ ⟨Ữ Ữ⟩ ⟨Ủ ủ⟩ ⟨Ū ū⟩ ⟨Ū̀ ū̀⟩ ⟨Ū́ ū́⟩ ⟨Ṻ ṻ⟩ ⟨Ū̃ ū̃⟩...
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irregular. There are many more vowel phonemes in English than there are single vowel letters (a, e, i, o, u, w, y). As a result, some "long vowels" are often...
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t U u V v W w X x Y y Z z There are 5 vowel letters and 19 consonant letters—as well as Y and W, which may function as either type. Written English has...
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any one of the five tonal symbols above or below it. Ừ ừ Ứ ứ Ử ử Ữ ữ Ự ự "Unicode Character "Ư" (U+01AF)". Compart. Oak Brook, IL: Compart AG. 2021. Retrieved...
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John Tanton (redirect from U S English (organization))
NumbersUSA, an anti-immigration lobbying group. He was chairman of U.S. English and ProEnglish. He was briefly President of Zero Population Growth. He was the...
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Ü (lowercase ü) is a Latin script character composed of the letter U and the diaeresis diacritical mark. In some alphabets such as those of a number of...
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in English (and other modern languages). Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. Many modern works distinguish u from...
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Look up U or u in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. U, or u, is the twenty-first letter of the English alphabet. U may also refer to: ∪ {\displaystyle...
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weak declension are primarily inherited from Old English n-stem nouns but also from ō-stem, wō-stem, and u-stem nouns,[citation needed] which did not inflect...
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tons (GRT) before being lost in the English Channel on 12 May 1918. In the early hours of 12 May 1918, the surfaced U-103 sighted Olympic, the older sister...
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Thorn (letter) (redirect from Faux Olde English)
DESCENDER U+A767 ꝧ LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN WITH STROKE THROUGH DESCENDER U+A7D3 ꟓ LATIN SMALL LETTER DOUBLE THORN was used in the Middle English Ormulum...
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Received Pronunciation (redirect from Queen's English)
stereotype from reality" with U-RP. Writing on his blog in February 2013, Wells wrote, "If only a very small percentage of English people speak RP, as Trudgill...
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Planeta U (English: "Planet U"), usually referenced as Tu Planeta U ("Your Planet U") is an American children's programming block that airs on the Spanish...
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Mid-Atlantic accent (redirect from Stage English)
were shifted from the THOUGHT vowel back to the LOT vowel. Also see U and non-U English for details. "The t after n is often silent in [regional] American...
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T (redirect from Pronunciation of English T)
symbols related to T: U+1D1B ᴛ LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL T U+1D40 ᵀ MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL T U+1D57 ᵗ MODIFIER LETTER SMALL T U+1E97 ẗ LATIN SMALL LETTER...
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letters ⟨j⟩ and ⟨w⟩, and there was no ⟨v⟩ as distinct from ⟨u⟩; moreover native Old English spellings did not use ⟨k⟩, ⟨q⟩ or ⟨z⟩. The remaining 20 Latin...
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The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language, a West Germanic language, and share a common ancestry...
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The identity of the longest word in English depends on the definition of a word and of length. Words may be derived naturally from the language's roots...
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Type XIV submarine (redirect from Type XIV U-Boat)
German the "Milchkuh/Milchkühe (pl.)" (English: milk cows). The Type XIV was based on the Type IXD long-range U-boat design, but with a shorter and deeper...
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Early Modern English (sometimes abbreviated EModE or EMnE) or Early New English (ENE) is the stage of the English language from the beginning of the Tudor...
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This page includes a list of biblical proper names that start with U in English transcription. Some of the names are given with a proposed etymological...
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SM U-1, also known in English as the German Type U 1 submarine, was the first U-boat class of the U-boat series of submarines produced for the German Empire's...
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most of the U.S. Great Lakes region New England English Eastern New England English (including Boston and Maine English) Rhode Island English Western New...
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