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  2. Oxford "-er" - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford " -er ", or often " -ers ", is a colloquial and sometimes facetious suffix prevalent at Oxford University from about 1875, which is thought to have been borrowed from the slang of Rugby School. The term was defined by the lexicographer Eric Partridge in his Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (several editions 1937–61).

  3. Silent e - Wikipedia

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    In English orthography, many words feature a silent e (single, final, non-syllabic ‘e’), most commonly at the end of a word or morpheme. Typically it represents a vowel sound that was formerly pronounced, but became silent in late Middle English or Early Modern English . In a large class of words, as a consequence of a series of historical ...

  4. List of Internet top-level domains - Wikipedia

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    Registry policies allow for rapid takedown of non-compliant domains, for violations including imposturous registration of another's names, and proscribed uses, including pornography or adult services/applications. Who's Who Registry: Yes: Yes .wiki: wikis "An open TLD for anyone interested in community resource creation" Top Level Design: Yes ...

  5. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    As a general rule, this vowel almost always acts as a joint-stem to connect two consonantal roots (e.g. arthr-+ -o-+ -logy = arthrology), but generally, the -o-is dropped when connecting to a vowel-stem (e.g. arthr-+ -itis = arthritis, instead of arthr-o-itis). Second, medical roots generally go together according to language, i.e., Greek ...

  6. Rhyme - Wikipedia

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    Words ending in a stressed vowel (e.g., вода́) can only rhyme with other words which share the consonant preceding the vowel (e.g., когда́). Words ending in a stressed vowel preceded by another vowel, as well as words ending in a stressed vowel preceded by /j/, can all be rhymed with each other: моя́, тая́ and чья all rhyme.

  7. Comparison of Danish, Norwegian and Swedish - Wikipedia

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    Swedish has five plural endings: -er, -or, -ar, -n and the zero ending (see the tables above and below). In addition, the formation of the definite plural forms are somewhat different in the three languages. In Danish, plural forms in -er transform into definite plural -erne, while plurals in -e and zero-ending become -ene.

  8. Ë - Wikipedia

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    Ë is the 8th letter of the Albanian alphabet and represents the vowel / ə /, like the pronunciation of the a in " a go". It is the fourth most commonly used letter of the language, comprising 7.74 percent of all writings. [ 2]

  9. List of words with the suffix -ology - Wikipedia

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    The ology ending is a combination of the letter o plus logy in which the letter o is used as an interconsonantal letter which, for phonological reasons, precedes the morpheme suffix logy. [1] Logy is a suffix in the English language, used with words originally adapted from Ancient Greek ending in -λογία (-logia). [2]