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... ( called pho- nemes by linguists ) is never very large compared with the number of words and word elements in the lexicon ; most speakers of English get by with about 40. Phonemes are identified by the fact that in some pairs of words ...
... called " thorn , " and ð , called " edh , " which served in Old English to represent the sounds now spelled with th . Other points worth noting include the fact that the pro- noun system did not yet , in the late tenth century , include ...
... called " A Dictio- nary of the English Language " and so is naturally con- cerned with the systems of English that we have cursorily surveyed in their synchronic and diachronic aspects . In fact , information related to all four systems ...
... called in our offices " reading and marking . " Ordinarily each editor spends a portion of the working day reading a variety of newspapers , magazines , and books , looking for anything that might be useful to a definer of English words ...
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