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On a news site I've just seen, an article is headed "COVID-19 now leading cause of death in Australia". That piqued my interest so I read further, and I discovered it's not "the leading cause" but "a leading cause", being number 3.
Apart from the very ambiguous and probably misleading heading, how far down a list of things could something be and still be accurately described as "leading"? Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 00:20, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
In Spanish it is ye or i griega. -- Error ( talk) 19:38, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
2. Probably because Finns had trouble pronouncing that sound. 惑乱 Wakuran ( talk) 11:47, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
2 -- Maybe because š is considered a rather foreign sound in Finnish? AnonMoos ( talk) 11:54, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
5 -- Categorically no with respect to [wr]. The other combinations might be attempted by a few speakers from time to time to imitate foreign languages (Greek, German), but are certainly not part of standard English. AnonMoos ( talk) 11:54, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
8. I would assume that it was transmitted through French, geo- always has a soft G, as far as I know. 惑乱 Wakuran ( talk) 11:47, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
8 -- Because the g's were before [e] and [i] vowels in early Romance. The modern English pronunciation of the consonants is faithful to the medieval French pronunciation of them. AnonMoos ( talk) 11:54, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
9 -- As has been established in previous discussions here, the answer is "No" with respect to modern standard languages. AnonMoos ( talk) 11:54, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
I don't think so. I don't think the Orthodox church would stand for it.
2A00:23A8:4015:F501:212D:11FB:1385:13C5 (
talk) 14:52, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
I was going to say Polish until I read
Cyrillization of Polish. --
Error (
talk) 19:42, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
The examples in
Pomak language are in the Latin alphabet.
The
Banat Bulgarian language has its own alphabet largely based on the Serbo-Croatian Gaj's Latin alphabet and preserves many features that are archaic in the language spoken in Bulgaria. Banat Bulgarian was codified as early as 1866 and is used in literature and the media, which distinguishes it from other Bulgarian dialects.[3]
Czech language is a minority language in Romania.
Slovak language is a minority language in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. -- Error ( talk) 20:34, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
Are there any words in Finnish where primary stress is not on first syllable? -- 40bus ( talk) 14:39, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
Do all Georgian nouns end in a vowel in nominative singular? Does Georgian forbid codas? -- 40bus ( talk) 17:00, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
If I ask a person that speaks english to say made up gibberish, does it sound like an arabic persons gibberish? Also, do babies or toddlers babbling make sounds depending on the language people around them speak? Janlopi ( talk) 21:16, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
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On a news site I've just seen, an article is headed "COVID-19 now leading cause of death in Australia". That piqued my interest so I read further, and I discovered it's not "the leading cause" but "a leading cause", being number 3.
Apart from the very ambiguous and probably misleading heading, how far down a list of things could something be and still be accurately described as "leading"? Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 00:20, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
In Spanish it is ye or i griega. -- Error ( talk) 19:38, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
2. Probably because Finns had trouble pronouncing that sound. 惑乱 Wakuran ( talk) 11:47, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
2 -- Maybe because š is considered a rather foreign sound in Finnish? AnonMoos ( talk) 11:54, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
5 -- Categorically no with respect to [wr]. The other combinations might be attempted by a few speakers from time to time to imitate foreign languages (Greek, German), but are certainly not part of standard English. AnonMoos ( talk) 11:54, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
8. I would assume that it was transmitted through French, geo- always has a soft G, as far as I know. 惑乱 Wakuran ( talk) 11:47, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
8 -- Because the g's were before [e] and [i] vowels in early Romance. The modern English pronunciation of the consonants is faithful to the medieval French pronunciation of them. AnonMoos ( talk) 11:54, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
9 -- As has been established in previous discussions here, the answer is "No" with respect to modern standard languages. AnonMoos ( talk) 11:54, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
I don't think so. I don't think the Orthodox church would stand for it.
2A00:23A8:4015:F501:212D:11FB:1385:13C5 (
talk) 14:52, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
I was going to say Polish until I read
Cyrillization of Polish. --
Error (
talk) 19:42, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
The examples in
Pomak language are in the Latin alphabet.
The
Banat Bulgarian language has its own alphabet largely based on the Serbo-Croatian Gaj's Latin alphabet and preserves many features that are archaic in the language spoken in Bulgaria. Banat Bulgarian was codified as early as 1866 and is used in literature and the media, which distinguishes it from other Bulgarian dialects.[3]
Czech language is a minority language in Romania.
Slovak language is a minority language in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. -- Error ( talk) 20:34, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
Are there any words in Finnish where primary stress is not on first syllable? -- 40bus ( talk) 14:39, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
Do all Georgian nouns end in a vowel in nominative singular? Does Georgian forbid codas? -- 40bus ( talk) 17:00, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
If I ask a person that speaks english to say made up gibberish, does it sound like an arabic persons gibberish? Also, do babies or toddlers babbling make sounds depending on the language people around them speak? Janlopi ( talk) 21:16, 28 September 2023 (UTC)