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"Mark off" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... consonant (n). Is it only accidental that these dialects are spoken in proximity to French, which makes abundant use of nasalized vowels? Again, there are certain general phonetic features that mark off Dutch and Flemish in contrast, say, to North German and Scandinavian dialects. One of these is the presence of unaspirated voiceless stops (p, t, k), which have a precise, metallic quality reminiscent of the corresponding French sounds, but which ...
— Language - An Introduction to the Study of Speech • Edward Sapir |
Words linked to "Mark off" : tick off, check over, look into, restrain, assure, trammel, mark, check up on, ensure, receipt, see, verify, bound, suss out, restrict, mark out, check out, confine, limit, control, check off, ascertain, check into, insure, throttle, go over, see to it |
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