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Ash (Æ, æ; pronounced [æʃ]) is a letter of the Latin alphabet for English. It is formed as a ligature of the letters a and e. In Modern English, usage varies in different places. It is mainly used in words derived from Latin, such as encyclopædia, nebulæ and athenæum. In some places such as the United States, such spellings may be considered archaic and replaced with encyclopedia and atheneum, respectively. In the United Kingd ...

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Ash may mean: Ash, the unburnable solid remains of a fire Ash (analytical chemistry), one of the components in the proximate analysis of biological materials, consisting mainly of carbonates and bicarbonates of metals Ash (band), a British rock band Ash (god), a hawk-god of the Sahara Desert in Egyptian mythology Ash tree, any tree of the genus Fraxinus Mountain Ash, any of various trees not in the Fraxinus genus Aishwarya Rai, actress from India popular ...

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As a variety of American English, California English is similar to most other forms of American speech in being a rhotic accent, which is historically a significant marker in differentiating different English varieties. The following chart represents the relative positions of the stressed monophthongs of the accent, based on nine speakers from southern California.[2] Notable is the absence of /ɔ/, ...

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California English, California English - History, California English - Phonology, California English - Lexical characteristics, California English - Northern vs. Southern California, California English - California sociolects and Chicano English, California English - Influence of California English, California English - Notes

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For computers, when using the Latin-1 or Unicode sets, the codes for 'Æ' and 'æ' are respectively 0198 and 0230, as well as 146 and 145, respectively (holding down the ALT key whilst typing in 0198 or 146 on the number pad will produce the character on Windows systems and holding down the option or alt key whilst typing an apostrophe (') on a United States Macintosh keyboard), or C6 and E6 in hexadecimal. There is also Cyrillic Ӕ ӕ in Unicode (U+04D4, U+04D5), though in practice the Latin letters Æ and æ (U+00C6, U+00E6) are used in Cyrillic texts (such as ...

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Æ, Æ - International Phonetic Alphabet, Æ - Computer use, Æ - Æ in art, Æ - Reference

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The popular image of a typical California speaker often conjures up images of the so-called Valley Girls popularized by the 1982 hit song by Frank Zappa or "surfer-dude" speech made famous by movies such as Fast Times at Ridgemont High. While many phrases found in these extreme versions of California English of the 1980s may now be considered passé, certain words such as awesome and dude have remained popular in California and have spread to a national, even international, level. The use of the word like for nume ...

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California English, California English - History, California English - Phonology, California English - Lexical characteristics, California English - Northern vs. Southern California, California English - California sociolects and Chicano English, California English - Influence of California English, California English - Notes

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George William Russell, the fin-de-siècle Irish poet, signed himself Æ, for Æon. The progressive metal band Tool used an Æ for the title of their third album, Ænima, and the song Ænema from that album. This is similar to the usage of the heavy metal umlaut, but is meant as a combination of anima and enema. ...

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Æ, Æ - International Phonetic Alphabet, Æ - Computer use, Æ - Æ in art, Æ - Reference

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George William Russell, the fin-de-siècle Irish poet, signed himself Æ, for Æon. The progressive metal band Tool used an Æ for the title of their third album, Ænima, and the song Ænema from that album. This is similar to the usage of the heavy metal umlaut, but is meant as a combination of anima and enema. In addition, the British electronic music group Autechre sometimes abbreviate their name to æ, as can be seen, for example, on the cover of ...

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Æ, Æ - International Phonetic Alphabet, Æ - Computer use, Æ - Æ in art, Æ - Reference

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