About the psychological use Compensation psychology IPA notice In linguistics , hypercorrection is defined as usage of some rule of pronunciation or Prescriptive grammar grammatical prescription that many users of a language consider incorrect, but that the speaker or writer uses through misunderstanding of these rules, ref name KGW cite book last Wilson first Kenneth G. authorlink title The Columbia Guide to Standard American English publisher Columbia University Press year 1993 location pages url ... Linguistic hypercorrection occurs when a real or imagined grammatical or phonetical rule is applied ..., applying it to situations where it never was meant to occur. Forms Hypercorrection may take different .... ref http www.voanews.com learningenglish home a 23 2007 07 23 voa3 83133807.html March 11, 2004 Hypercorrection ... 521 61288 8 , 107. ref Hyperforeignism A hyperforeignism is a special type of hypercorrection resulting ... hypercorrection http www.spiritus temporis.com hypercorrection www.spiritus temporis.com hypercorrection ... j laan5 jam1 . However, in a case of hypercorrection, some speakers have started pronouncing words ... initials. Because of this hypercorrection, words such as wikt Cantonese zh j oi3 , meaning love ... wikt , wikt Erhua hypercorrection may occur among non native speakers of rhotic Chinese ... fish , and Tich IPA t instead of wikt Tisch Tisch IPA t table . This is due to a hypercorrection ... not it is pronounced without the ending t sound. An example of a hypercorrection is the spelling tminstonde for standard Swedish tminstone at least , where the pleonastic d can be explained as a hypercorrection ... be seen as a hypercorrection when Hebrew speakers of Ashkenazic origin attempt to pronounce Sephardic ... of oversimplification rather than of hypercorrection. Conversely, many older British Jews ... Notes Reflist References Labov, William. 1966. Hypercorrection by the Lower Middle Class ... Hyperkorrektur es Ultracorrecci n fr Hypercorrection is Ofv ndun it Ipercorrezione he li ... more details
Hypocorrection is a natural language linguistic phenomenon which involves the purposeful addition of slang in an attempt to appear less intelligible or soften the description. It contrasts with hesitation and Modulation linguistics modulation because rather than the speaker not having the right words to say or choosing to avoid them, the speaker uses hypocorrection as a strategy. It involves a redundancy shift which is entirely controlled by the speaker. Hypocorrection is one of the mechanisms by which languages change. See also Slang Hypercorrection Circumlocution Analogy References http linguistics.berkeley.edu kjohnson ling110 Lecture Slides 9 Perception perception in soundchange perception in soundchange.pdf Category Linguistics Category Sociolinguistics phonetics stub fr Hypocorrection ... more details
Unreferenced date June 2009 Wiktionary solecism In traditional prescriptive grammar , a solecism is something perceived as a grammatical mistake or absurdity, or even a simply non standard usage. The word was originally used by the Greeks for what they perceived as mistakes in their language. Ancient Ancient Athens Athenians considered the dialect of the inhabitants of their colony Soli, Cilicia Soli in Cilicia to be a Corruption grammar corrupted form of their own pure Attic Greek Attic dialect, full of solecisms Greek language Greek , soloikismo Sing. , soloikism s . Here are some examples of usages often regarded as solecisms in standard English This is just between you and I for This is just between you and me hypercorrection to avoid the common you and me form in the predicate of Copula linguistics copulative sentences, despite the fact that me is the standard pronoun for the object of a preposition He ain t going no where for He isn t or he s not going anywhere or he is going nowhere going any where dialect al usage see ain t and double negative Whom shall I say is calling? for Who shall I say is calling? hypercorrection resulting from the perception that who pronoun whom is a formal version of who or that the pronoun is functioning as an object when, in fact, it is a subject One would say, Shall I say he is calling? Irregardless for regardless nonstandard usage from analogy with constructions like irreverent, irrespective, and irrevocable, where the negative prefix in changes to ir but redundant due to less The woman, she is here for The woman is here nonstandard usage with the double subject she She can t hardly sleep for She can hardly sleep a double negative , as both can t and hardly have a negative meaning The issue is, is his attitude for The issue is his attitude see double copula Substituting A for B when the intended meaning is substituting B for A or replacing A with B , i.e. removing A and putting B in its place. I could care ... more details
add a pronounced schwa to words ending in a consonant this may be caused by hypercorrection . Footnotes ... 0 eric accno&accno EJ190650 Phonological Hypercorrection in the Process of Decreolization the Case ... more details
For the feminine form of the Spanish word Habanero Habanera disambiguation taxobox name Habanero image Habanero closeup edit2.jpg image caption A habanero chili regnum Plantae unranked divisio Angiosperms unranked classis Eudicots unranked ordo Asterids ordo Solanales familia Solanaceae genus Capsicum species Capsicum chinense C. chinense binomial Capsicum chinense binomial authority Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin Jacq. pepper boxwidth 150px image chilli55.jpg heat Exceptionally Hot Scoville scale SR 100,000 350,000 ref http homecooking.about.com library weekly blhotchiles.htm ref The habanero chili Capsicum chinense pron en h b n ro IPA es a a ne o lang is one of the more intensely spicy species of chili peppers of the Capsicum genus . It is sometimes misspelled and mispronounced haba ero the Diacritic diacritical mark being added as a Hypercorrection Hyperforeignism hyperforeignism . ref name dictionary http www.merriam webster.com dictionary habanero www.merriam webster.com habanero variant spelling ref ref name hypercorrection http www.spiritus temporis.com hypercorrection www.spiritus temporis.com hypercorrection ref Unripe habaneros are green, and they color as they mature. Common colors are orange and red, but white, brown, and pink are also seen. Typically a ripe habanero is convert 2 6 cm in 1 long. Habanero chili peppers are rated 100,000 350,000 on the Scoville scale . Origin and current use The exact origins of the pepper are unknown, but some speculate that it originated in South America and migrated north to Mexico and the Caribbean via Colombia an intact fruit of a small domesticated Habanero was found in Pre ceramic levels in Guitarrero Cave in the Peruvian highlands and was dated to 6500 B.C.. ref http www.pimentasartesanais.com.br ref It is often mistakenly referred to as the hottest pepper in the world that honor belongs to the Naga Jolokia , a hybrid of C. chinense and C. frutescens the Thai chili is a cultivar of the latter see Scoville Scale ... more details
This is a list of Cantonese related topics , which can encompass Guangdong, the Cantonese people, culture, and language. Expand list date August 2008 compactTOC B Baiyue C Canton dialect Cantonese Cantonese cuisine Cantonese wedding Category Cantonese words and phrases Cantopop Chaozhou dialect Char siu Char siew rice Char siu fan BBQ pork with rice Chiuchow cuisine Culture of Hong Kong D Diglossia Dim sum Dislocation syntax Diu Cantonese G Guangdong Guangdong Romanization Guangzhou Gwailo H Hakka Hakka architecture Hakka cuisine History of Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanisation Hong Kong Cantonese Hypercorrection J Jyutping L Sidney Lau Lingnan culture Linguistic Society of Hong Kong M Macau Meyer Wempe Music of Hong Kong N Nanhai Chao O Cantonese opera P Cantonese people Proper Cantonese pronunciation Punti Punti Hakka Clan Wars S Siyi Seiyap T Taishan dialect Taishanese Hoisanese Teochew dialect Hong Kong tea culture W Written Cantonese Y Yale Romanization Yue State of Yue Yue Chinese Z Zhang Jiuling Category Hong Kong related lists Cantonese Category Guangdong Cantonese related topics Category Macau related lists Cantonese related topics Category Indexes of articles Cantonese related topics Index footer ... more details
Otheruses Coup de Gr ce disambiguation Unreferenced date December 2009 Wiktionarypar coup de gr ce The expression coup de gr ce Pron en ku d r s , IPA fr ku d s lang , blow of mercy means a death blow intended to end the suffering of a wounded creature. The phrase can refer to the killing of civilians or soldiers, friends or enemies, with or without the consent of the sufferer. It is often used figuratively to describe the last in a series of events which brings about the end of some entity for example The business had been failing for years the coup de gr ce was the sudden jump in oil prices. In the context of an execution, it means shooting the heart or head typically the Brain stem back of the skull of an already wounded, but not yet dead, person during a military or civilian execution . It can also refer to the near beheading that follows a samurai s seppuku . In wartime, it can also be used to refer to the shooting or other killing of a seriously wounded person, either friendly or enemy, who is not expected to live or for whom medical aid cannot be obtained. In countries that authorize executions by firing squads, a coup de gr ce can be administered if the first hail of gunfire fails to kill the prisoner. Listen filename Fr coupdegrace fr Paris.ogg title Coup de gr ce spoken description Audio of coup de gr ce by a native French speaker The French pronunciation of the phrase is ku d s , but many English language English speakers pronounce it ku de , which sounds in French like coup de gras and would mean something like blow of fat. Omitting the final s is an example of a hypercorrection Hyperforeignism hyperforeignism . See also Animal euthanasia Euthanasia Firing squad DEFAULTSORT Coup De Grace Category French words and phrases Category Homicide cs R na z milosti da Coup de gr ce de Gnadenschuss it Colpo di grazia nl Genadeslag no Coup de gr ce pl Coup de gr ce pt Golpe de miseric rdia ru ... more details
Mandalit del Barco IPA es manda li el arko is an award winning general assignment reporter for National Public Radio NPR born in Lima, Peru . Her stories have been featured on NPR shows All Things Considered , Morning Edition , Weekend Edition Saturday , and Day to Day . Del Barco has also been published in numerous anthologies. She began her career as a journalist for the Miami Herald and also spent time working for The Village Voice. She first began working in radio while in New York. She moved to Los Angeles in 1993 from New York City , where she was a reporter for WNYC . Del Barco is known for her Hypercorrection hypercorrect pronunciation of Spanish language Spanish Toponomy toponyms and proper names. Del Barco spent the year of 1999 2000 living and working in her native Peru on a Fulbright grant and Knight International Journalism Fellowship. While there she worked on a documentary project about the rise and fall of Fujimori as well as gathering the stories of those internally displaced during Peru s internal conflicts. Del Barco has had tremendous influence on many up and coming journalists. She has been a student mentor on all of the NAHJ National Association of Hispanic Journalists and Unity student projects as well as mentoring young journalists outside this venue. This has prompted some of her protege s to claim that they are alumni of the Del Barco School for Young Journalists. External links http www.npr.org templates story story.php?storyId 2100429 NPR biography DEFAULTSORT Del Barco, Mandalit Category Living people Category American public radio personalities Category American people of Peruvian descent US radio bio stub ... more details
as the phenomena of phonological hypercorrection and social identity indexicality. First, second ... inclusive of the mother in law. Hypercorrection as a social class index Hypercorrection is defined ... for Applied Linguistics, 1969. ref DeCamp defines hypercorrection in a more precise fashion claiming that hypercorrection is an incorrect analogy with a form in a prestige dialect which the speaker has imperfectly mastered. ref DeCamp, D. Hypercorrection and Rule Generalization. 1972 ref Many scholars argue that hypercorrection provides both an index of social class and an Index of Linguistic Insecurity .... ref name hyper Winford, Donald. Hypercorrection in the Process of Decreolization The Case of Trinidadian ... that measured the phonological hypercorrection in creolization of English speakers in Trinidad ... so incorrectly, thus producing the phenomenon known as hypercorrection. This hypercorrection ... class constraints and subsequent linguistic effects the encourage hypercorrection in the first place ... have also studied how hypercorrection in African American Vernacular English demonstrates similar ... more details
File Embden goose at zoo.jpg thumb An Embden goose at the Birmingham Zoo The Embden Goose is a breed of domestic goose . The origins of this breed are thought to be from region North Sea , in Holland and Germany . The eminent author Lewis Wright wrote around 1900 was of the opinion that they originated from the town of Emden in Lower Saxony , Germany , although Edward Brown in his 1906 Races of domestication Domestic Poultry believed that the breed was created by crossing the German White with the English White and then, by a process of careful selections, creating the goose as it is today. Others suggest that the English Embden s great weight and size was produced by selective breeding with the Toulouse Geese Toulouse breed , which was then bred out leaving the large size of this breed. In any case, the continental stock used in breeding the modern birds is most likely descended from the great white landrace of Frisia, which has been attested as early as the 13th century. In German language German the breed is known as Emder Gans or Emdener Gans the latter is actually a hypercorrection . Description The breed is pure white with a short, light orange Beak bill , and orange feet and shanks. They are fast growing birds and will quickly reach about 9 kg 20 lb for the Goose, and 14 kg 30 lb for the Gander. The Embden s legs are fairly short. The head is oval shaped and they have a long and graceful neck. The eyes are an ocean blue. The body is bulky and well rounded, having a long back and a short tail. The wings are very strong and of a good length. The feathers are close and very hard. The breed s habits are to forage for tidbits in the grass and water, a very hardy breed. The adult bird will commence laying eggs fairly early in the year, in February as a rule, laying 30 to 40 egg biology eggs . Image Embden Goose Chick.jpg thumb Embden Goose chick See also Domestic goose List of goose breeds References Batty, Joseph 1996 Domesticated Ducks & Geese ... more details
Taxobox name Lake Crescent cutthroat trout image image width 250px regnum Animal ia phylum Chordata classis Actinopterygii ordo Salmoniformes familia Salmonidae genus Oncorhynchus species Cutthroat trout O. clarki subspecies subspecies Oncorhynchus clarki clarki O. c. clarki small but see text small subdivision ranks form zoology Form subdivision Oncorhynchus clarki clarki f. crescentii synonyms Oncorhynchus clarki crescentii small but see text small main Cutthroat trout Crescenti cutthroat trout a hypercorrection or Lake Crescent cutthroat trout a more literal translation of the scientific name Oncorhynchus clarki clarki f. crescentii is a local form zoology form f. loc. of Coastal cutthroat trout isolated in Lake Crescent in Washington U.S state Washington and is not currently recognized as an official subspecies Behnke 1992 . However the cutthroat trout of Lake Crescent do remain distinct, with the highest known gill raker and vertebra e counts of any coastal cutthroat population. The cutthroat are believed to have been reproductive isolation isolated in Lake Crescent after a landslide blocked the eastern outflow of the lake. Before the introduction of non native trout to the lake, these fish co existed with the lake s population of coastal rainbow trout known as Beardslee trout . The cutthroat mostly used the lake s inlet stream Barnes Creek Washington Barnes Creek for Spawn biology spawning , while the rainbow trout used the Lyre River for spawning. However in the early 1980 s a small cutthroat population was found in the Lyre River that spawns further downstream than the native rainbow trout. Today the cutthroat of Barnes Creek have been hybrid biology hybridized with introduced rainbow into cutbow s, but Crescenti cutthroat trout persist in the Lyre River as a genetically pure population Behnke 1992 . A Crescenti cutthroat caught in 1961 set the state record for cutthroats at convert 32 in cm 0 and convert 12 lb kg 1 . ref Trotter, Patrick C. Cutthroat Native ... more details
Deque smo is a variation in Spanish grammar , considered wrong in Linguistic prescription prescriptive works, which consists in using de que instead of just que as the complementizer introducing a verbal complement clause. For example Me dijo de que estaba cansado He told me that he was tired is a case of deque smo since the usual construct is Me dijo que estaba cansado . Deque smo is considered peculiar to less educated speakers, most probably as an instance of hypercorrection . References Bentivoglio, Paola. 1975. Que smo y deque smo en el habla culta de Caracas. In Frances M. Aid, Melvyn C. Resnick, and Bohdan Saciuk eds. , Colloquium on Hispanic Linguistics Washington Georgetown University Press , pp. 1 18. ISBN 0 87840 360 4. Carbonero, Pedro. 1992. Que smo y deque smo en el habla culta de Sevilla Analisis contrastado con otras hablas peninsulares y americanas. In Elizabeth Luna Traill ed. , Scripta Philologica in Honorem Juan M. Lope Blanch a los 40 a os de docencia en la UNAM y a los 65 a os de vida Mexico City Instituto de Investigaciones Filol gicas, Universidad Nacional Aut noma de M xico , pp. II 43 63. Gomez Torrego, Leonardo. 1991. Reflexiones sobre el deque smo y el que smo en el espa ol de Espa a. Espa ol Actual , 55 23 44. McLauchlan, Jessica, 1982, Deque smo y que smo en el habla culta de Lima. Lexis Revista de Ling stica y Literatura , 6 1 11 55. Rabanales, Ambrosio. 1974. Que smo y deque smo en el espa ol de Chile. In Mar a Josefina Tejera ed. , Homenaje a ngel Rosenblat en sus 70 a os Estudios filol gicos y ling sticos Caracas Instituto Pedag gico , pp. 413 444. Also in Juan M. Lope Blanch ed. , Estudios sobre el espa ol hablado en las principales ciudades de Am rica Mexico City Universidad Nacional Aut noma de M xico, 1977 , pp. 541 569. Category Spanish grammar es Deque smo gl Deque smo hu Dequeizmus s queizmus ja ... more details
Cacography is deliberate comic misspelling , a type of humour similar to malapropism . ref On the Real Side Laughing, Lying, and Signifying the Underground Tradition of African American Humor that Transformed American Culture, from Slavery to Richard Pryor , by Mel Watkins , 1994, ISBN 0671689827, http books.google.com books?id BrNZAAAAMAAJ&q cacography&dq cacography&lr &pgis 1 pp. 60, 62 ref ref name pattee A History of American Literature Since 1870 by Fred Lewis Pattee, 1917, http books.google.com books?id gs5ZAAAAMAAJ&pg PA34&dq 22deliberate misspelling 22 p.34 , digitized by Google Books ref The term in the sense of poor spelling , diacritic accentuation , and punctuation is a semantic antonym to orthography ref A Practical Grammar of French Rhetoric, by Gabriel Surenne , 1846, http books.google.com books?id pTQEAAAAQAAJ&pg PA150&dq cacography PPA150,M1p. 150 , digitized by Google Books ref , and in the sense of poor handwriting it is an etymological antonym to the word calligraphy cacography is from Greek language Greek kakos bad graphe writing . A common usage of cacography was to caricature illiterate speakers. ref The literary content of the New York Spirit of the times, 1831 1856 , by Richard Boyd Hauck , 1965, http books.google.com books?id uws AAAAIAAJ&q cacography&dq cacography&lr &pgis 1 p. 184 ref Russian internet The Russian internet culture witnessed an explosive growth of Russian language cacography of particular, systematic types, see articles Padonki and Udaff . One way of corruption is phonetic spelling of Russian words, i.e., an exaggerated way of natural erring, e.g., Niasilil didn t cope with to read in full correct spelling , ne osilil , a typical response to a long and or boring post. Another way is grotesque hypercorrection the word is spelled in such a way that when pronounced, it sounds in a correct way. An example is a Russian internet meme Preved , which is pronounced as and intends to mean, privet , i.e., ... more details
Other uses refimprove date November 2009 Taxobox name Turbot image Psetta maxima Luc Viatour.jpg image width 250px image caption Psetta maxima regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Actinopterygii ordo Pleuronectiformes familia Scophthalmidae genus Psetta species P. maxima binomial Psetta maxima binomial authority Carl Linnaeus Linnaeus , 10th edition of Systema Naturae 1758 The turbot Psetta maxima is a species of flatfish in the family biology family Scophthalmidae . It is native to marine ocean marine or brackish waters of the North Atlantic , Black Sea , Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean Sea . Etymology The word comes from the Old French tourbout , which in turn is thought to be a derivative of the Latin turbo spinning top a possible reference to its shape. ref Oxford English Dictionary, Turbot ref Early reference to the Turbot can be found in a satirical poem Satires of Juvenal Satire IV The Emperor s Fish The Emperor s Fish by Juvenal, a Roman poet of the late 1st and early 2nd centuries A.D., suggesting this fish was a delicacy in the Roman empire. Turbot is pronounced IPA en t rb t respell TUR b t . It is occasionally mispronounced IPA t rbo small TUR small boh . This is likely a back formation based on French language French words ending in ot the French pronunciation of turbot is IPA fr ty bo , or an instance of hypercorrection . Citation needed date May 2010 . In Turkey, where the fish is popular and expensive, it is called Kalkan shield due to the fish s resemblance to the item. Description The turbot Psetta maxima is a large left eyed flatfish found primarily close to shore in sandy shallow waters throughout the Mediterranean , the Baltic Sea , the Black Sea and the North Atlantic . The European turbot has an asymmetrical disk shaped body, and has been known to grow up to convert 100 cm in abbr on long and convert 25 kg lb abbr on in weight. ref FishBase species genus Psetta species maxima year 2009 month November ref Fisheries Turbot is hi ... more details
Tiro ao lvaro is a samba song composed in 1960 by Italian Brazilian composer and singer Adoniran Barbosa real name Jo o Rubinato . In his style of the paulista samba, it has humorous lyrics written in a popular Portuguese language . Lyrics table tr valign top td Original De tanto levar frechada do teu olhar br Meu peito at parece sabe o qu ? br Tauba de tiro ao lvaro br N o tem mais onde furar br Tauba de tiro ao lvaro br N o tem mais onde furar br Teu olhar mata mais br Do que bala de carabina br Que veneno estriquinina br que peixera de baiano br Teu olhar mata mais br Do que atropelamento de automove br Mata mais que bala de revorve td td td td Standard Brazilian Portuguese De tanto levar flechada do teu olhar br Meu peito at parece sabe o qu ? br T bua de tiro ao alvo br N o tem mais onde furar br T bua de tiro ao alvo br N o tem mais onde furar br Teu olhar mata mais br Do que bala de carabina br Que veneno estricnina br que peixeira de baiano br Teu olhar mata mais br Do que atropelamento de autom vel br Mata mais que bala de rev lver td td td td Free translation After so many arrow shots from you eyes br My breast looks like you know what? br A target practice board br Which can take no more holes br A target practice board br Which can take no more holes br Your looks kill more br Than a carbine s bullet br More than strychnine poison br More than a Baiano nowiki nowiki s knife br Your looks kill more br Than an automobile running over me br Kills more than the bullet of a gun td tr table Note Even though the Portuguese lyrics contain many colloquial features and at least one hypercorrection, lvaro instead of alvo that would be considered mistakes according to the standard language norm, they depict the actual language spoken by Paulistanos at the time. Unfortunately these features are lost in the English translation. See also Trem das Onze Samba Italiano Samba do Arnesto Category Brazilian songs Category ... more details
Sound change In linguistics, l vocalization is a process by which an IPAblink l sound is replaced by a vowel or semivowel sound. This happens most often to velarized IPAblink . Examples Germanic languages English L vocalization is a notable feature of certain dialects of English language English , including New Zealand English , Cockney , New York English , Philadelphia dialect Philadelphia English and Estuary English , in which an IPA l sound occurring at the end of a word or before a consonant is replaced with the semivowel IPAblink w , and a syllabic IPA l is replaced by vowel s like IPAblink o or IPAblink , resulting in pronunciations such as IPA m wk , for milk , and IPA m do , for middle . It can be heard occasionally in the dialect of the English East Midlands , where words ending in old can be pronounced IPA o d . Petyt 1985 noted this feature in the traditional dialect of West Yorkshire but said it has died out. ref KM Petyt, Dialect & Accent in Industrial West Yorkshire , John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 219 ref Especially in New Zealand English and Cockney, l vocalization can be accompanied by phonemic differentiation phonemic mergers of vowels before the vocalized IPA l . For example, real , reel and rill , which are distinct in Received Pronunciation , are homophones in Cockney as IPA w . In the accent of Bristol , syllabic IPA l vocalized to IPA o , resulting in pronunciations like IPA b to for bottle . By hypercorrection , however, some words originally ending in IPA o were given an IPA l the original name of the town was Bristow , but this has been altered by hypercorrection to Bristol . ref OEtymD Bristol ref In the United States, the dark L in Pittsburgh English Pittsburgh and African American Vernacular English dialects may change to an o or w . In African American Vernacular, it may be omitted altogether e.g. fool becomes IPA fu , cereal becomes IPA si io . Some English speakers from San Francisco particularly those of Asian anc ... more details
About a digraph LL as an initialism LL disambiguation IPA notice Ll ll is a digraph orthography digraph which occurs in several natural language s. In English In English language English , ll represents the same sound as single l IPA l . The doubling is used to indicate that the preceding vowel is historically short, or for etymology etymological reasons, in latinism s. Spanish and Galician div style float right IPAslink IPA soundbox IPAslink IPA soundbox div In Spanish language Spanish and official Galician language Galician spelling the ll combination stands for the phoneme IPA palatal lateral approximant , a palatal IPA l . However, nowadays most Spanish speakers, as well as some Galicians, pronounce ll the same as y ye smo . As a result, in most parts of Latin America as well as in many regions of Spain, Spanish speakers pronounce it IPA voiced palatal fricative , while some other Latin Americans especially Rioplatense Spanish Rioplatense speakers, and in Tabasco, Mexico pronounce it IPA voiced postalveolar fricative or IPA voiceless postalveolar fricative . This digraph is considered a single letter in Spanish orthography, called elle . From 1803 it was collation collated after L as a separate entry, a practice now abandoned in April 1994, a vote in the X Congress of the Association of Spanish Language Academies ruled the adoption of the standard Latin alphabet collation rules, so that for purposes of collation the digraph ll is now considered a sequence of two characters. ref http www.asale.org ASALE ConAALEBD?IDDOC 6010&menu 1 Asociaci n de Academias de la Lengua Espa ola , official website. ref The same is now true of the Spanish language digraph ch digraph ch . Hypercorrection leads some to wrongly capitalize it as a single letter Asterisk Generativist tradition in linguistics LLosa instead of the official Llosa LLOSA is the right form in full uppercase as with the Dutch language Dutch IJ letter IJ . In handwriting , it is written as a Typog ... more details
Other uses Lycian disambiguation Image Lycian Apollo Louvre left.jpg thumb lupright A statue of the Apollo Lykeios type at the Louvre The Apollo Lyceus lang el , Apoll n Lukeios type, also known as Lycean Apollo Lycian is a misnomer Lycaean is a hypercorrection , originating with Praxiteles ref A connection made on insufficient grounds according to Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway Ridgway, A Story of Five Amazons , American Journal of Archaeology, 78 .1 January 1974 1 17 p. 9 ref and known from many full size statue and figurine copies as well as from 1st century BCE Athenian coinage, is a statue type of Apollo showing the god resting on a support a tree trunk or tripod , his right forearm touching the top of his head and his hair fixed in braids on the top of a head in a haircut typical of childhood. It is called Lycean not after Lycia itself, but after its identification with a lost work described, though not attributed to a sculptor, by Lucian ref Anacharsis 7 . ref as being on show in the Lyceum Ancient Greek Lyceum word origins Lyceum , one of the gymnasium ancient Greece gymnasia of Athens . According to Lucian, the god leaning on a support with his bow in his left hand and his right resting on his head is shown as if resting after long effort. Its main exemplar is the Apollino in Florence or Apollo Medici , in the Uffizi , Florence . ref de icon Wilhelm Klein, Praxiteles , Lepizig, 1898, p. 158. ref Image AGMA Apollon Lykeios.jpg thumb upright left Statuette of the Apollo Lykeios type, Ancient Agora of Athens Museum of the Ancient Agora of Athens inv. BI 236 this is a ref. to Lucian, no? Another literary source does not attribute this type to Praxiteles, The attribution, based on the type s elongated proportions, elegant pose and somewhat effeminate anatomy , as Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway characterised it, ref Ridgway 1974 9. ref is traditionally supported on the grounds of the type s similarity to Praxiteles s Praxiteles Hermes and the infant Di ... more details
Encyclopedia
top
