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Sounds Familiar? What you can hear You can listen to 71 sound recordings and over 600 short audio clips chosen from two collections of the British Library Sound Archive: the Survey of English Dialects and the Millennium Memory Bank. You’ll hear Londoners discussing marriage and working life, Welsh teenagers talking with pride about being bilingual and the Aristocracy chatting about country houses. You can explore the links between present-day Geordie and our Anglo-Saxon and Viking past or discover why Northern Irish accents are a rich blend of seventeenth century English and Scots. What you can do In addition there are interpretation and learning packages relating to the dual themes of language variation and language change within spoken English. In Regional Voices you can explore the differences that exist in spoken English as you move across the country, while Changing Voices gives you the chance to hear how English has changed in different parts of the country over the last fifty years.

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10 best boat journeys Boats are often overlooked as a way to see the world; we invariably have limited time to get from A to Z so we fly, missing B to Y. In a lot of cases, though, boats are the best, and frequently the only way, to properly see a destination. Here are ten of the best boat journeys the world has to offer. 1. Fjords, Norway Image by Maltesen For more than a century, Norway’s legendary Hurtigruten ferry route has linked the numerous coastal villages and towns. 2. Image by Maria Hsu Bobbing on the emerald waters of Halong Bay and moving through its 3000-odd limestone islands is simply sublime. 3. Image by Bruno Girin From its inconspicuous source in the Peruvian highlands to its mouth near Belém in Brazil, the Amazon River measures more than 6,200km (3,853mi). 4. Image by robynejay Not for the faint-hearted, rubber-rafting down the wild Franklin River is a challenging and, at times, treacherous undertaking. 5. Image by Loimere 6. Image by Sarah and Iain 7. Image by katclay 8. Image by Gavin Gilmour 9.

10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling I waste so much time Key to pronunciation The pronunciations given are those in use among educated urban speakers of standard English in Britain and the United States. While avoiding strongly regionally or socially marked forms, they are intended to include the most common variants for each word. The keywords given are to be understood as pronounced in such speech. This key is to the pronunciations given in revised entries. For pronunciations in unrevised entries, see this key. British English Consonants In addition, the consonants l, m, and n can take on the function of a vowel in some unstressed syllables. Vowels and diphthongs ᵻ represents free variation between /ɪ/ and /ə/ ᵿ represents free variation between /ʊ/ and /ə/ Stress The symbol ˈ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with primary stress, as in the first syllable of cerebrate /ˈsɛrᵻˌbreɪt/ . U.S. The consonants of U.S. After a vowel, U.S. Compare U.S. mar /mɑr/, marring /ˈmɑrɪŋ/ with British mar /mɑː/, marring /ˈmɑːrɪŋ/

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Outline of basic music theory - www.oscarvandillen.com Professional music theory: an outline of basic music theory. Preface and Chapter 1 of the Outline of basic music theory – by Oscar van Dillen ©2011-2014 The beginner’s learning book can be found at Basic elements of music theory. Overview of chapters: Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Sound and hearing Chapter 3: Musical notation Chapter 4: Basic building blocks of melody and harmony Chapter 5: Consonance and dissonance Chapter 6: Circle of fifths and transposition Chapter 7: Concerning rhythm, melody, harmony and form Chapter 8: Further study Preface This outline offers a concise and complete overview of basic music theory. In order to speed up consulting this online book, its chapters can as of now be found on separate pages; unfortunately the original one-page version exceeded acceptable download times, because of the length of the total materials presented. © Oscar van Dillen 2011-2014 Chapter 1: Introduction integrating hearing-reading-singing-writing

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Blossom One Limited: Former Apple/NASA Engineers Create $11,000 Coffee Machine Apple design and NASA engineering have finally come together to make the Blossom One -- but it's not a sexy-looking space shuttle that's really easy to fly. Named more like a rocket ship than a Mr. Coffee competitor, the Blossom One Limited is, in fact, a gorgeous, $11,000 coffee machine. And though I am not, I confess, as much of a "coffee person" as many of my caffeine-addled colleagues and friends, I must admit that, after an hour-long taste test in New York City, the Blossom One Limited coffee machine does indeed make -- excuse me -- a damn good cup of coffee. An apparent improvement-by-miles on the simple, mundane kitchen coffee machine, the Blossom One Limited was designed and developed by three impressively-credentialed young coffeephiles -- all recent university grads with stints at Apple, NASA, BMW, and Tesla Motors on their collective résumés. . The Blossom One Limited is the result of their labors. You can learn more about the Blossom One Limited at the Blossom website.