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  2. List of irregularly spelled English names - Wikipedia

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    Ireland. Youghal. YAWL. /jɔːl/. Personal names. [edit] Bold names are common; so, while not intuitive, they are among the most well-used. Names in italics are names of non-English origin common among English speakers and only irregular in English pronunciation. Given names.

  3. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation - Wikipedia

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    Normally, pronunciation is given only for the subject of the article in its lead section. For non-English words and names, use the pronunciation key for the appropriate language. If a common English rendering of the non-English name exists (Venice, Nikita Khrushchev), its pronunciation, if necessary, should be indicated before the non-English one.

  4. Consummation - Wikipedia

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    Consummation. In many traditions and statutes of civil or religious law, the consummation of a marriage, often called simply consummation, is the first (or first officially credited) act of sexual intercourse between two people, following their marriage to each other. The definition of consummation usually refers to penile-vaginal sexual ...

  5. Gallagher (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Outside Ireland, the pronunciation is often altered to /ˈɡæləˌɡər/ in Britain and the USA. The name Gallagher is an anglicization of the Irish surname Ó Gallchobhair , Ó Gallchobhoir (or two alternative spelling forms, Ó Gallchóir and Ó Gallachóir ), these being masculine forms; the corresponding feminine forms are Ní ...

  6. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Wikipedia

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    Mihaly Robert Csikszentmihalyi was born on 29 September 1934 in Fiume, [ 4] now known as Rijeka, [ 5] then part of the Kingdom of Italy. His family name derives from the village of Csíkszentmihály in Transylvania. [ 6] He was the third son of a career diplomat at the Hungarian Consulate in Fiume. [ 5][ 7] In 1944, when Csikszentmihalyi was ...

  7. Nehme (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Variant form (s) numerous. [1] Nehme ( Arabic: نعمة) is a prominent Lebanese surname which is derived from the given name Nehme. As of 2014, Nehme is the 39th most common surname in Lebanon with about 13,000 people holding the surname, or about one in 380 people. [1]

  8. Hough (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Hough (surname) Hough is an English surname that is also used in Ireland as a variant of Haugh. People with this surname may pronounce it as "how" ( / haʊ /) or "huff" ( / ˈhʌf / ). Notable people with the surname include:

  9. Catherine of Aragon - Wikipedia

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    Catherine of Aragon (also spelt as Katherine , historical Spanish: Catharina, [ 1] now: Catalina; 16 December 1485 – 7 January 1536) was Queen of England as the first wife of King Henry VIII from their marriage on 11 June 1509 until its annulment on 23 May 1533. She was Princess of Wales while married to Henry's elder brother, Arthur, Prince ...