The terminology used by brewers to describe varying levels of roasting intensity in the malting process tends to sound like words describing sweets: There are malt levels that are bisquity, toasty, caramelly, toffee-like and even chocolaty, Mr. Daniels said.
Contrary to what some reviewers accused, her words sound heart-felt and not at all self serving.
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Most importantly, she taught me to more carefully consider how my words sound to my patients.
When Coca-Cola began looking for a suitable Chinese version of its name after launching the drink there in 1927, it found that some local shopkeepers had produced homemade signs using Chinese characters to replicate the sound of the words "Coca-Cola, " without noticing that the characters in combination could be read as "female horse fastened with wax" or "bite the wax tadpole, " according to Coca-Cola researchers.
While the words might sound heartless, putting our kids to work is far from it.
Though that string of words may sound a bit tortured, the book remains in print.
Whole Language doesn't teach youngsters to sound out syllables and words as the traditional phonics method does.
Though that string of words may sound like an awkward stretch to find an acronym, the book remains in print.
Bird's songs are full of eccentric words that sound like they've tumbled out of a Scrabble box - radiolarians, dermestids and plecostomus.
"It's a good system, " said Lars Svensson, Bangkok-based marketing director, who appears to relish properly pronouncing words that sound especially unsavory to Thai ears.
The following year, the band released its Words of Sound EP before following it up with the full-length Pontus, the Devil, and Me at the start of 2008.
Again, transferring a traditional activity of reading with your children from a physical book to duplicating that experience digitally, complete with touch, topped with interactivity with the page, words and sound.
Many workers have stared at an empty PowerPoint page with dread, knowing that their thoughts and ideas would be projected onto a screen to a roomful of people and believed that the best way to fill the void is with faux words that sound more important than they are.
She had to learn English, and she initially knew words only by their sound.
In Finnish, exceptionally, each letter makes a single logical sound and there are no irregular words.
"And the sound is usually inspired by the words, rather than vice versa, " Curtis adds.
Though words in Ithkuil may sound like a hacking cough, they have an inherent and unavoidable depth.
It has just a hundred and twenty-three words and fourteen basic sound units.
But rather than just inventing a few words to make them sound alien, he devised a complete language, with its own vocabulary, grammar, and usage.
The sound combines percussion with shouts, spoken words and atmospheric melody.
The compulsory phonics check assesses a child's ability to sound out or decode a series of words, some of which are made up, to test their reading skills.
This includes the inter-weaving of written words with moving images and sound, in which the poets can create online "performances" for their work, says the centre's director, Loss Pequeno Glazier.
He has the absolute determination and obsession to get his words, his face, his sound bites on the television, a sort of competitiveness which you've never seen in a politician.
They sound like Latin, but they're not really words as far as we know.
The three of them sat at the kitchen table, saying the same things over and over, so that by August the words began to rhyme with each other and sound strange.
Watching the same show with Speech Enhancement made Dame Maggie Smith's character's words louder than the background music and other sound in a scene, so we didn't have to strain to hear.
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The FBI did not make a final determination either way, citing several reasons including the fact they came during "an extreme emotional state, " there weren't enough words to make a good comparison and the sound quality was low and distant.
Burridge is quick to criticise "evil weed" words, such as dishonest euphemisms that try to sound neutral when really they are negative, such as friendly fire and downsize.
People know anywhere from 50, 000 to 100, 000 words, each of them an arbitrary pairing between a sound and a meaning.
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