ENGLISH PHONOLOGY
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A basic speech sound in which the breath is at least partly obstructed and which can be combined with a vowel to form a syllable. Contrasted with vowel . • a letter representing a consonant.
(From The Oxford Dictionary of English (2nd edition revised) in English Dictionaries & Thesauruses)
vowel noun
A speech sound, almost invariably forming the main part of a syllable, that involves no significant obstruction of the airstream through the vocal tract . Various features distinguish the sound of one vowel from another, notably whether the front, ...
(From A Dictionary of Psychology in Politics & Social
Sciences)
diphthong noun
Meaning a speech sound in which the articulation changes from one vowel to another, as in coin, loud , pain , spoke , etc., is spelt with - ph- and should be pronounced dif- , not dip- . Diphthongs are a common feature of English pronunciation.
(From Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage in English Language
Reference)
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lphilology
1. Love of learning and literature; the branch of knowledge that deals with the historical, linguistic, interpretative, and critical aspects of literature; literary or classical scholarship. Now chiefly U.S.
By the late 19th cent. this general sense had become rare, but it was revived, principally in the United States, in the early 20th cent. For a fuller discussion of this, see A. Morpurgo Davies
Hist. Linguistics (1998) 4 I. 22.
etymology of "crow"
[OE. cráwe f., corresp. to OS. krâia,
MLG. krâge, krâe, krâ, LG. kraie, kreie,
MDu. kraeye, Du. kraai, OHG. chrâwa, chrâja,
chrâ, crâwa, crâ, MHG. kræe, krâwe,
krâ, Ger. krähe; a WG. deriv. of the vb. crâwan, crâian
to
crow
(Zool) cuervo m ; as the ~ flies en línea recta ; eat transitive verb 1 , stone 2
(From The Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary (English-Spanish) in Bilingual
Dictionaries)