Have you ever heard someone call Killeen "Kye-lean" or Salado "Salad-oh"? That's just the tip of the Texas mispronunciation iceberg. Here are the towns and cities most folks who didn't grow up in Texas don't have a clue how to pronounce. ...
That's just the tip of the Texas mispronunciation iceberg. Here are the towns and cities most folks who didn't grow up in Texas don't have a clue how to pronounce. Balmorhea Nastco Balmorhea This West Texas town is home to Balmorhea State Park, where you’ll find the world’s largest...
I know it’s been a while, and I attribute my declining blogging productivity to two factors: needing to devote my attention to the second edition of my textbook (see below), and working under the guidance of a declining population of neurons. It turns out that 71-year-old-brains have s...
There is another type of audio-based captcha in which users are required to not only listen, but to pronounce. For example, Gao [9] proposed a sound captcha (Fig. 9), in which the user should read out a sentence selected randomly from a book. The generated audio file is analyzed to ...
If you've ever glanced at a restaurant wine list or browsed the wine aisle of the grocery store, you know there are a lot of different kinds of wine out there. But that's just the tip of the iceberg. Several hundred grape varieties are used to make the world's wines, resulting in...
“One of the reasons I’ve changed the name is because people could never spell or pronounce it properly,” says Dick. Talagandra Station was the name of the homestead, sprawling gardens and surrounding paddocks in 1864. Neither Dick nor the Osborne family, who owned it before him, know ...
humanities Article "How to Pronounce Meme." Three YouTube Channels Sandy Baldwin Department of English, Rochester Institute of Technology, 06-2307, Rochester, NY 14623, USA; cabgsl@rit.edu Academic Editors: Burt Kimmelman and Philip Andrew Klobucar Received: 17 October 2016; Accepted: 15 March ...
First, several definitions and distinctions specific to the reading process: A) Synopsis:You must minimize the number and duration of fixations per line to increase speed. You do not read in a straight line, but rather in a sequence of saccadic movements (jumps). Each of these saccades ends...
The largest ship in service at the time of its 1912 sailing, the Titanic departed Southampton, England on April 10 (for its maiden voyage) and was due to arrive in New York City on April 17. At 11:40 p.m. on the evening of April 14, it collided with an iceberg and sank beneath ...
(3) After hitting an iceberg it sank into the sea. Of the 2,200 people on the ship, only 705survived. (4) He had searched for it for more than 20 years before he found it. (5) When new technology was developed, he used it to send cameras down into the sea. Finally, he found...