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How To Translate Wikipedia’s Pronunciation Guides
Say you’re looking up the Möbius strip on Wikipedia and you wonder how it’s pronounced. Wikipedia only shows some elaborate pronunciation guide written in the International Phonetic Alphabet. You could start googling it in another tab, but there’s an easy way to translate that pronunciation guide into plain English. Just hover over the letters.
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This App Finds Adjectives For The Noun You’re Writing About
When you’re writing, adjectives give you the most flexibility to create a vivid picture. It’s also easy to slip into a cliche series of mundane, familiar adjectives. Describing Words helps inspire you with something different.
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This Video Explains Why Words Get Stuck On The Tip Of Your Tongue
It’s one of life’s most frustrating annoyances: when a word gets stuck on the tip of your tongue, and try as you might, you just can’t think of that actor’s name or that particular word. According to SciShow, this happens once a week for most of us, and here’s how it happens.