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  • 121Phonestheme — The term phonestheme (or phonaestheme in British English) was coined in 1930 by British linguist J. R. Firth (from the Greek phone , sound , and aisthanomai , perceive ) to label the systematic pairing of form and meaning in a language.A… …

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  • 122Complementizer — In linguistics (especially generative grammar), a complementizer (or complementiser) is a syntactic category (part of speech) roughly equivalent to the term subordinating conjunction in traditional grammar. For example, the word that is generally …

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  • 123sleep — sleepful, adj. sleeplike, adj. /sleep/, v., slept, sleeping, n. v.i. 1. to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake. 2. Bot. to… …

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  • 124Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom) — For the speaker of the House of Lords, see Lord Speaker. Speaker of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom The Crowned Portcullis …

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  • 125Ornament (music) — An extreme example of ornamentation as a fioritura from Chopin s Nocturne in D flat major. In music, ornaments or embellishments are musical flourishes that are not necessary to carry the overall line of the melody (or harmony), but serve instead …

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  • 126Bass guitar — A Music Man Stingray bass String instrument Other names Bass, electric bass guitar, electric bass. Classification …

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  • 127Speaker of the House of Commons (UK) — In the United Kingdom, the Speaker of the House of Commons is the presiding officer of the House of Commons, and is seen historically as the First Commoner of the Land . The current Speaker is The Right Honourable Michael Martin MP, who took… …

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  • 128Yat — Cyrillic alphabet navbox Heading=Cyrillic letter Yat uuc=0462|ulc=0463 Yat or Jat (Unicode|Ѣ, Unicode|ѣ) is the name of the thirty second letter of the old Cyrillic alphabet, or of the sound it represents. Its name in Old Church Slavonic is ět’… …

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