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DL | latinlit | carmina | Pronunciation of consonants
To Pronunciation Index > Latin consonants look the same as those in English since English borrowed the Latin alphabet. Some consonants follow the same pronunciation and some do not.Alan Sweeney ( Page 637@aol.com ) contributed all the datasets for Arabic, Celtic, Modern Greek, Spanish, and Thai names. Loren Miller ( loren@wharton.upenn.edu ) contributed the datasets for Cthulhoid, Carmanian, Assyrian, Japanese, and Viking names. Alex Fink ( fink@cadvision.com ) contributed the Latvian files. Hayden Sweeney ( bmalehtmai@aol.com ) contributed the dataset for Ancient Egyptian.
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Online Etymology Dictionary
This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago. The dates beside a word indicate the earliest year for which there is a surviving written record of that word (in English, unless otherwise indicated).
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519) was an artist, inventor, scientist, architect, engineer, writer and even a musician. Now we know that he was also a fashion designer. After several months of meticulous research, scholars have reconstructed some fragmented drawings of a unique bag designed by the Renaissance genius around 1497. (…)
A correspondent (thanks, Paul!) sent me a link to the online Chin English Dictionary created by David Van Bik; I thought it was pretty neat, but it bothered me that when I entered "chin" I only got one translation, khabe , presumably the anatomical term. "What's the word for Chin in Chin?"
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