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A Germanic language, which originated from England, and is considered the leading language in international communication. For non-linguistic questions about the English language, visit one of our sister sites English Language & Usage or English Language Learners.

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Impossible bigrams in the English Language

Beyond bigram or full-word based solutions, there is a similar question over on StackOverflow about English-like word generation (instead of detection) which takes a syllabic approach. … These are then stitched together in a Markov chain resulting in valid English syllables. The important part is that these pairs are not a fixed length, for example "-a" + "at" = "at" vs. …
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Common English bigrams / trigrams - recognising that a jumble of letters contain only valid ...

Note: I am a little confused on exactly what the OP means by "similar" and if they want to find English-like strings or actual English strings. … The first question is do you want to find which strings contain and English word or which string are entirely English. …
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Why do Richard and Robert become Dick and Bob?

It actually has nothing to do with a phonological rule, per se. You've pick out that these two names have onset /r/s, but what about "William" ("Bill")? These examples appear to be vestiges of a long …
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Why do people singing in English sound like Americans?

I suspect you're coming in from a false assumption. Accents are a combination of many factors, the most notable being vowel pronunciation but also including stress patterns, intonation, etc. However, …
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