U and non-U English usage, where "U" stands for upper class and "non-U" represents the aspiring middle and lower classes, was part of the terminology of...
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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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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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⟨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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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English is a West Germanic language that originated from Ingvaeonic languages brought to Britain in the mid-5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants...
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FIFA U-20 World Cup. Official website (in English) Tournament archive at Fifa.com (in English) World Youth Cup (U-20) Overview at the RSSSF (in English)...
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sequences is always the same. However, in English, while /uː/ can be spelled in up to 24 different ways, including ⟨oo, u, ui, ue, o, oe, ou, ough, ew⟩ (spook...
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Newfoundland Canadian English (CanE, CE, en-CA) encompasses the varieties of English used in Canada. According to the 2016 census, English was the first language...
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Noblesse Oblige (book) (category British English)
Until Nancy Mitford wrote "The English Aristocracy" in an article published in 1955, England was blissfully unconscious of 'U' ('Upperclass') usage. Her article...
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U; and its family of free-to-air channel adopted the 'U&...' branding: U&Dave, U&Drama, U&W, and U&Yesterday. (This happened prior to the Eden rebrand)...
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U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars. The term is an anglicized version of the German word...
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