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Manischewitz or Mani’z?

New York Magazine 10 Apr 2024
What, a macaroon they shouldn’t want? They now come in nontraditional flavors like red velvet, rocky road, and cookies and cream, and the potato-pancake mix and matzo-ball mix come with phonetic Yiddish pronunciation guides.
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Italian world's most attractive language: Babbel's survey

The News International 06 Feb 2024
According to Noël Wolf, a Babbel language teacher, it's the musical quality inherent in the rise and fall of pitch in spoken Italian that captivates many. "Certain phonetic features, such as the ...
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Speaking to babies in sing-song speech like nursery rhymes ‘helps them learn language’

ITV 01 Dec 2023
Scientists from the University of Cambridge have found that infants learn languages from rhythmic information – the rise and fall of tone – as seen in nursery rhymes or songs.
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Ed Sheeran wins 'Let's Get It On' copyright infringement case for 'Thinking Out Loud'

The Keene Sentinel 05 May 2023
The trial concluded after a jury first met on April 24 ... He said writing a song was second nature, and he used his “own version of phonetics” to quickly create songs. After giving a sample of his singing, Sheeran said, “and then words fall in.” ... L.A ... .
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Ed Sheeran wins ‘Let’s Get It On’ copyright infringement case for ‘Thinking Out Loud’

The Los Angeles Times 04 May 2023
He said writing a song was second nature, and he 'used his own version of phonetics' to quickly create songs. After giving a sample of his singing, Sheeran said 'and then words fall in.' Then he turned ...
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To Budleigh, with love: Conant connection lives on

Gloucester Times 25 Mar 2023
Ditto Cape Ann, frankly ... Decades later, Conant also attempted to have Beverly renamed Budleigh after having a falling out with the phonetic structure of Beverly’s pronunciation sounding like the word “beggarly,” historical record shows ... That’s great ... .
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Houseplant of the week: mother of thousands

The Observer 10 Mar 2023
Bright, indirect sunlight. A south- or east-facing windowsill is ideal ... Pronounced “ka-lan-ko-ee”, the genus name is supposedly derived from a phonetic transcription of the Chinese phrase “kalan chauhuy”, which means “that which falls and grows” ... .
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Garrison Keillor: The beauty of a bitterly cold Sunday, 8 a.m.

Union Leader 01 Feb 2023
... “shi-team” and fearing that she’d slip and pronounce it phonetically and a marble angel would fall and crash and red lights would flash and people would require treatment for post-traumatic stress.
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Readers reply: what would happen if we changed our spellings to match phonetics?

The Observer 20 Nov 2022
What would happen if we changed our spellings to match phonetics? Mikal Richerdsun, Bryton ... introduce phonetic spelling, and illiteracy would fall, children would learn to speak and write more quickly – um.
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Column: ‘My Fair Lady’ arrives at the Detroit Opera House with a modern makeover

Press & Guide 23 Jun 2022
As delightful as the story about the transformation of a Cockney flower girl into an upper-class English lady is, the phonetic transformation is only one part of the story, and the likelihood of Eliza ...
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The 100 best romance movies of all time

The Times & Democrat 13 Mar 2022
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring (2003) ... After making a bet with a fellow phonetics professor, Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) sets out to transform Doolittle, unexpectedly falling in love with her along the way.
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