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- noun Plural form of
text . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
text .
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Examples
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With the Internet, and especially with Google Books, it is becoming easier to research and to read original Latin texts from the Renaissance, which adds veracity to any argument.
The Vatican’s Dictionary of Recent Latinity « The Half-Baked Maker 2010
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The authority of the texts is always on the side of the extremists, because they do say what they say.
Transcending God 2007
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The authority of the texts is always on the side of the extremists, because they do say what they say.
Transcending God 2007
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The authority of the texts is always on the side of the extremists, because they do say what they say.
Transcending God 2007
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My plan is to create a template drawing with some label texts then use VBA to open the template drawing, change the label (which is text) then save it as a new drawing, close it and continue to creating another
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Barely had they all sat down than one girl asked if she may be excused; she was receiving texts from a friend headed to this seminar who was lost – could she go and rescue him?
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Prosveshcheniye, a publisher of school texts, is issuing 10,000 copies to schools and libraries across Russia, she said.
'Gulag Archipelago' Re-Issued for Russian Students Richard Boudreaux 2010
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This gap in texts to support the curriculum poses a great challenge to teachers and students who rely on them as the only comprehensive resource to support the courses they teach.
University 2009
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This inquiring mind wants to know if the parochial schools order their texts from the same company.
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Granted, the loss of the ancient texts from the Library of Alexandria (libraries, actually …) will never be compensable.
jeff commented on the word texts
This is the only English word I know with four consonant sounds in a row in the same syllable. Does anybody know any others? "R" is a liquid, so I don't think "firsts" or "thirsts" really count.
October 24, 2007
sionnach commented on the word texts
strengths generally shows up on lists of high consonant density words. Though I'm not quite sure what you mean by a 'consonant sound".
schmoozed?
October 24, 2007
jeff commented on the word texts
I mean four consecutive consonant phonemes (excluding liquids, like r, l, and w) if you spelled the word in IPA. Texts has ksts. "Strengths" has two consonants plus a liquid at the beginning and three consonant sounds at the end. The four letters at the beginning of "schmooze" actually represent only two phonemes. Aside from "Hoechst's" and maybe some similar possessives of words that are originally foreign, I don't think there's another word in English with four consonant sounds in a row in the same syllable.
October 24, 2007
sionnach commented on the word texts
um..... whatever
October 24, 2007
sarra commented on the word texts
Jeff — sixths, thousandths; glimpsed, jinxed; prompts, tempts (attempts &c.); adjuncts, conjuncts, precincts, instincts… If you allow liquids, then twelfths, sculpts, mulcts, waltzed and warmths too. However, sixths seems to be the only other one I've found which doesn't rely on a nasal at the beginning of the cluster, and it seems you're looking solely for unvoiced consonant clusters here. Linguistic convention does count all these types as valid four-consonant clusters.
Naturally, there's also contexts, pretexts &c.
(I'll probably only amuse myself in pointing out that sixths and twelfths are consonant intervals)
December 5, 2007
mollusque commented on the word texts
I'm not conversant with the conventions of judging such things, but seems to me "texts" is not quite one syllable. The breath is broken into two segments in the transition from "xt" to "s". I bid one and half syllables.
December 5, 2007
sarra commented on the word texts
I don't think I could explain what constitutes a syllable (q.v. for an explanation in a day or two, perhaps) without breaking into linguist-speak of death — but to understand the wobbliness of your theory, note that there are actually two "breaks" of the breath (stops, which you could hold as long as you like) in this word, viz.: te—xt—s!
December 5, 2007
mollusque commented on the word texts
Weebles wobble without falling down, so I'm not sure if by wobbliness you mean that there's something or nothing to my argument. All us Wordies kick linguistic butt on occasion, and get our butts kicked on others, so while I'm awaiting linguistic deathspeak...
Yes, there can be two breath breaks in "texts", but the first is optional whereas the second is hard to avoid. If tsetse were spelled tstse would it be one syllable or two? Also, can't "ts" be a single phoneme? What if I represent "xts" as "ksצ" (using a Hebrew letter tsadi) instead of ksts?
December 5, 2007
jeff commented on the word texts
Wow! "Sixths" definitely fits the bill. It was so obvious, and unlike "texts" it is a completely native word. I suppose what I meant in the original question was four consecutive obstruent phonemes--no nasals or liquids.
I think the "t" and "s" in "texts" are separate sounds in this instance, but I can see that they could be considered a single affricate.
If "glimpsed" and "jinxed" are used as nouns, then there are a couple of rather awkwardly contrived but still legitimate possessives that also have four consecutive obstruent phonemes: "The jinxed's thoughts were obliviously optimistic."
Thanks for the comments and thanks to sarra for the additional words.
April 13, 2008
crunchysaviour commented on the word texts
This is all very well, but I think the important point to note here is that "texts" is an extremely annoying word, especially when used in exams in school when some woman from the exam board is saying it, repeatedly, on a tape played in a knackered old cassette player. I bet they try to get the phrase "mixed texts" into those tapes whenever they can, just to be extra annoying. Seethe!
August 21, 2008