VELARIZE

Etymology

Verb

velarize (third-person singular simple present velarizes, present participle velarizing, simple past and past participle velarized)

(phonology) To raise the back of the tongue toward the velum while articulating another consonant, such as the l of English pool.

(phonology) To replace a (usually more front) consonant with a velar.

Source: Wiktionary



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EARTHSHAKING

(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”


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According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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