Sound Science

"...in some languages spoken in the Amazon basin, there is in fact a vowel with negative length, called elision (usually represented in English by the backspace key). This is why the proper plural for anaconda is, for example, severalacondas. The same sound is used at the end of many French words, but this is not reflected in the orthography since it was standardized before the sound change occurred around the 17th century..."

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