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  2. International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standardized representation of speech sounds in written form. [1] The IPA is used by lexicographers, foreign language students and teachers, linguists, speech–language pathologists, singers, actors, constructed language creators, and translators.

  3. James while John had had had had had had had had had had had ...

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    In research showing how people make sense of information in their environment, this sentence was used to demonstrate how seemingly arbitrary decisions can drastically change the meaning, analogous to how changes in the punctuation and quotes in the sentence show that the teacher alternately prefers James's work and John's work (e.g., compare ...

  4. Most Asian Americans think SAT but not race is fair to ... - AOL

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    Frank Xu, a San Diego parent of a high-school sophomore and an MIT student, said he opposed UC regents' decision to nix testing mandates and believes that the preponderance of research shows that ...

  5. Reading - Wikipedia

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    Reading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of letters, symbols, etc., especially by sight or touch.. For educators and researchers, reading is a multifaceted process involving such areas as word recognition, orthography (spelling), alphabetics, phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and motivation.

  6. Elementary school principal sends heartwarming letter to parents

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    This school letter to parents right before the exam is awesome from pics The letter went on to list why a student cannot be the best in everything. For example, if a child is an artist, they will ...

  7. English alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The most common diacritic marks seen in English publications are the acute (é), grave (è), circumflex (â, î, or ô), tilde (ñ), umlaut and Diaeresis (ü or ï—the same symbol is used for two different purposes), and cedilla (ç). [4] Diacritics used for tonal languages may be replaced with tonal numbers or omitted.

  8. English language - Wikipedia

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    English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.

  9. List of South Park characters - Wikipedia

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    Mr. Garrison was in part inspired by a kindergarten teacher who taught Trey Parker, and who used a puppet named Mr. Hat as a teaching resource. Mr. Garrison was also inspired by a British literature professor Parker had at the University of Colorado; Parker said the voice he uses for the character is a dead-accurate impression of him.