• 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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  • vowels /iː/ and // 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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    U
    Ǜ ǜ⟩ ⟨Ǘ ǘ⟩ ⟨Ǚ ǚ⟩ ⟨Ǖ ǖ⟩ ⟨ ⟩ ⟨Ú ú⟩ ⟨Ù ù⟩ ⟨Û û ⟩ ⟨Ǔ ǔ⟩ ⟨Ȗ ȗ⟩ ⟨Ű ű⟩ ⟨Ŭ ŭ⟩ ⟨Ư ư⟩ ⟨ ⟩ ⟨ ⟩ ⟨ ⟩ ⟨ ⟩ ⟨ ⟩ ⟨ ⟩ ⟨Ū ū⟩ ⟨Ū̀ ū̀⟩ ⟨Ū́ ū́⟩ ⟨ ⟩ ⟨Ū̃ ū̃⟩...
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    O (redirect from U+004F)
    American English, it is most commonly an unrounded back [ɑ] to a central vowel [a]. Common digraphs include ⟨oo⟩, which represents either // or /ʊ/;...
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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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    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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    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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    any one of the five tonal symbols above or below it. "Unicode Character "Ư" (U+01AF)". Compart. Oak Brook, IL: Compart AG. 2021. Retrieved...
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    W (redirect from Double U)
    in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is double-u, plural double-ues...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    alphabets. In English, Yu is commonly romanized as ⟨yu⟩ or ⟨ju⟩. In turn, ⟨ю⟩ is used, where available, in transcriptions of English letter ⟨u⟩ (in open syllables)...
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  • Latin roots in English beginning with other letters: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V X Z Lists of Greek and Latin roots in English beginning with...
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    Northern England English law, or like modern Southern England, Australian and New Zealand English bot but pronounced longer. Long // in bout, similar...
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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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    Look up ŭ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ŭ or ŭ is a letter in the Belarusian Latin alphabet used since 1840/1845, based on u. It is also used in...
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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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