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Scaramouche (French:) or Scaramouch (English: / ˈ s k ær ə m uː (t) ʃ,-m aʊ tʃ /; from Italian Scaramuccia [skaraˈmuttʃa]; lit. ' little skirmisher ' ) is a stock clown character of the 16th-century commedia dell'arte (comic theatrical arts of Italian literature ).
Frey (surname) Frey is a surname of German origin, from the Middle High German word "vri," meaning "free," and as a name, it referred to a free man, as opposed to a bondsman or serf in the feudal system. [ 1][ 2] Other variations include Freyr, Freyer, Freyda, Freyman, Freyberg, Freystein, Fray, Frayr, Frayda, Frayberg, Frayman, Freeman.
List of German abbreviations. This list of German abbreviations includes abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms found in the German language. Because German words can be famously long, use of abbreviation is particularly common. Even the language's shortest words are often abbreviated, such as the conjunction und (and) written just as "u."
This section lists German letters and letter combinations, and how to pronounce them transliterated into the International Phonetic Alphabet. This is the pronunciation of Standard German . Note that the pronunciation of standard German varies slightly from region to region.
Most of the world’s top corporations have simple names. Steve Jobs named Apple while on a fruitarian diet, and found the name "fun, spirited and not intimidating." Plus, it came before Atari in ...
For the distinction between [ ], / / and , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. The phonology of Standard German is the standard pronunciation or accent of the German language. It deals with current phonology and phonetics as well as with historical developments thereof as well as the geographical variants and the influence of ...
In politics, a diet (/ ˈ d aɪ. ə t / DY-ət) is a formal deliberative assembly.The term is used historically for deliberative assemblies such as the German Imperial Diet (the general assembly of the Imperial Estates of the Holy Roman Empire), as well as a designation for modern-day legislative bodies of certain countries and states such as the National Diet of Japan, or the German Bundestag ...
Ö, or ö, is a variant of the letter O. In many languages, the letter "ö", or the "o" modified with an umlaut, is used to denote the close- or open-mid front rounded vowels [ ø] ⓘ or [ œ] ⓘ. In languages without such vowels, the character is known as an " o with diaeresis " and denotes a syllable break, wherein its pronunciation remains ...