allophone
(noun) (linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme
Source: WordNet® 3.1
allophone (plural allophones)
(phonology) Any of two or more alternative pronunciations for a phoneme.
(Canada, strict) A person whose mother tongue is neither English nor French.
(Canada) A person whose mother tongue is one other than that spoken by the majority.
allophone (comparative more allophone, superlative most allophone)
(Canada) That which is of a language neither English nor French.
(Canada) That which is of a language other than that spoken by the majority.
Source: Wiktionary
15 June 2025
(verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling; “he is always shnorring cigarettes from his friends”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
