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- verb Present participle of
nasalise .
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Examples
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Graham, to display the nasalised version of ɛ add the following:
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Two years later we were ready: “barred l” now became ‘w’, and the vowels were nasalised, as in French, rather than treated as a sequence of vowel + nasal.
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In 1979, however, two things happened almost simultaneously – a Polish Pope was elected: John Paul II, whose Polish family name included the barred l – Wojtyła, and the Solidarity movement was constantly in the news, led by a man whose name not only included a barred l, but also an ogonek reverse cedilla under a vowel letter, indicating that it is a nasalised vowel: Lech Wałęsa.
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One strange, pseudo-French pronunciation I have heard is "envelope" spoken with a nasalised "on" as the first syllable.
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As in all foreign words ending with a vowel, the Portuguese have nasalised the "i."
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"Ang," said he, imitating the characteristic nasalised eh of Italian affirmation, and accompanying it by the characteristic Italian jerk of the head.
The Cardinal's Snuff-Box Henry Harland 1883
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An illustration of the way in which final M and N were weakened may be found in the nasalised pronunciation of them in modern
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
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