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Generally, too, Chinese does not have consonant groups or words ending in a vowel (except the nasal -ng [η] as in běijīng ).
Clinton's determination to eradicate poverty is consonant with the welfare "reforms" he championed so vigorously, his determination to raise the minimum wage so high that it's nearly possible to live on it, and his commitment to do something or other for the 43 million Americans who lack health insurance.
There are telltale characteristics, widely if not universally present: the replacement of an initial "th" with a "d" sound ("dis," "dem") and of a medial or final "th" by an "f" or other consonant sound ("with" becomes "wif," "brother" becomes "bruvah"); a reduction of consonant clusters in general (so that "first" becomes "firs" and "hand" becomes "han"); the replacement of a final "r" sound with a vowel sound ("summah" for "summer" and "mo" for "more"); the prevalence of so-called plosive consonants (making a word such as "bill" sound more like "beel"); the placement of stress on a first, rather than a second, syllable ("DEE-troit"); the disappearance of the final "s" from third-person singular verbs ("what go 'round, come 'round"); the dropping of the copula ("I here," "the coffee cold") and of certain tense inflections altogether.
The second explanation is possible, though numerous Spanish words end in a consonant and I don't know how the two explanations could be verified.
Tungsten was first discovered in the United States in 1819, along with tellurium (with the symbol Te, it comes from Latin tellus , another word for terra , both meaning earth; compare the consonant shift between Latin puer , boy, and puella, girl) in Huntington, Connecticut, in a bismuth mine.
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