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  1. single word requests - Verb for the act of making a "Tch" sound ...

    Aug 26, 2017 · This has been bothering me (a native English speaker) for a long time. It seems almost impossible outside of dialogue to describe the act of unconsciously spitting out a …

  2. How did the silent 't' come into all these 'tch' words?

    12 It seems to me that the 'tch' behaves in English spelling the way a doubled consonant would, and the 'ch' the way a single consonant would. That is, 'tch' is more likely to occur after short …

  3. pronunciation - Is the ‘t’ in ‘witch’ considered a silent t? - English ...

    Jul 14, 2024 · A competing analysis would be that "tch" is a trigraph where all three letters function together to represent the single sound [t͡ʃ]. In the first analysis, "t" is a silent letter.

  4. Word for sound made by tongue and teeth

    Jul 5, 2017 · Is the sound made just at one side of the mouth? In the situation you describe I would make a 'click' or 'pop' sound by placing the flat of my tongue against the roof of my …

  5. single word requests - Is there a male equivalent of 'bitch'?

    May 5, 2014 · While I know you can attribute 'bitch' to a male, I feel there is a sense of femininity. I was wondering if there is a colloquial equivalent that describes someone with the qualities of …

  6. What do we call the “rd” in “3ʳᵈ” and the “th” in “9ᵗʰ”?

    Aug 23, 2014 · Our numbers have a specific two-letter combination that tells us how the number sounds. For example 9th 3rd 301st What do we call these special sounds?

  7. Origin and connotations of RBF (Resting Bitch Face)

    May 22, 2013 · Like really early. On the very same day, a YouTube video by Madeline Mann, entitled: “My Struggle With Resting B*tch Face”, was posted. In the video she utters the …

  8. Why is karma a bitch? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    Also used as the rhetorical question Ain't karma a bitch? Synonyms: What goes around, comes around Getting his just desserts He had it coming and strongly related to Payback's a bitch It …

  9. Why do we write "Tsk" for the sound of disapproval?

    The Full OED has this for their 1947 "first citation": L. Pike Phonemics ii. 41/1 Do you get..a sound resembling the noise of commiseration which is sometimes written in literature as ‘tsk-tsk’, or …

  10. Is there a WORD For: sound made by mouth to express …

    Feb 16, 2018 · The sound made by pushing middle tongue against palate, tip of tongue bent downward and pushed up against upper teeth and sucking in air sharply w/ mouth open, chin …