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  • For instance, some people in the US adopt a pronunciation of babel as 'bay-bell' rather than the US norm of 'bab-uhl' to avoid a confusion with babble.

    On imaginary pronunciations DC 2007

  • (BAY-buhl, BAB-uhl) In the Book of Genesis, a tower that the descendants of Noah built.

    Babel, Tower of 2002

  • (LEYE-uhl) Nineteenth-century Scottish natural philosopher who laid the foundations for the modern sciences of geology and evolutionary biology.

    Lyell, Charles 2002

  • (VEYE-uhl) The largest and lowest-pitched instrument of the strings, also called a bass fiddle or double bass.

    bass viol 2002

  • (ROM-uhl) A German military commander of the twentieth century.

    Rommel, Erwin 2002

  • (ETH-uhl) The kind of alcohol made by fermentation of the sugar in grains; the fermentation is brought about by the enzymes in yeast.

    ethyl alcohol 2002

  • (PAHR-tuh-sip-uhl) The verb form that combines with an auxiliary verb to indicate certain tenses.

    participle 2002

  • Hopefully if people do attend the meeting then uhl will find it a little harder to lie or when he does contradict other things that he has said,

    unknown title 2009

  • Please go to the school board meeting and show uhl that we do care what happens to the school.

    unknown title 2009

  • I think that just showing up in numbers will send uhl a message that the parents care what happens at CHS.

    unknown title 2009

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