Ciekawostka: The following sentence: `A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; af

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Laborer dies after falling 25 feet through a skylight.

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Farmer dies after falling through fiberglass skylight panel.

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Truck driver killed after falling through unprotected skylight.

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Roofing contractor dies after falling through skylight.

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Project manager dies after falling through skylight.

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An eye rhyme, also called a visual rhyme or a sight rhyme, is a rhyme in which two words are spelled similarly but pronounced differently. An example is the words "cough" and "dough", which despite sharing the ough ending do not form a rhyme (being pronounced and respectively). Many older English poems, particularly those written in Early Modern and Middle English, contain rhymes that were originally true or full rhymes, but as read by modern readers, they are now eye rhymes because of shifts in pronunciation, especially the Great Vowel Shift. These are called historic rhymes. Historic rhymes are used by linguists to reconstruct pronunciations of old languages, and are used particularly ext…

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English orthography comprises the set of rules used when writing the English language, allowing readers and writers to associate written graphemes with the sounds of spoken English, as well as other features of the language. English's orthography includes norms for spelling, hyphenation, capitalisation, word breaks, emphasis, and punctuation. As with the orthographies of most other world languages, written English is broadly standardised. This standardisation began to develop when movable type spread to England in the late 15th century. However, unlike with most languages, there are multiple ways to spell every phoneme, and most letters also represent multiple pronunciations depending on th…

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