These iotated vowel letters and a special soft sign change a preceding consonant from hard to soft.

A few feminine nouns that end with the soft sign, such as дверь and пыль, also have a locative form that differs from the prepositional in that the stress shifts to the final syllable: " на двери ́", na dverí (" on the door "), but " при две ́ ри ", pri dvéri (" by the door ").

Since there is no sign of anything that might function as jaws, its food was presumably small and soft.

At that stage the skin might be splitting and the calyx can easily be plucked out of the fruit before serving, which often is a good sign that the soft fruit is ready to eat.

The sign read, in translation, " If you're soft ( stupid ) enough to come down here on your way home, your tea will be spoilt.

Forchheimer's sign occurs in 20 % of cases, and is characterized by small, red papules on the area of the soft palate.

Tempering these selective factors was the crypteia, during which the strongest and fittest helots were the primary targets of the kryptes ; to select soft targets would be interpreted as a sign of weakness.

At that time, Coca-Cola went on to sign an exclusive agreement to provide soft drinks to the competing Subway franchise.

The pylorus, which normally is ventral and to the right of the body of the stomach, will be cranial to the body of the stomach and left of the midline, often separated on the x-ray by soft tissue and giving the appearance of a separate gas filled pocket ( double bubble sign ).

Orthographies with a high grapheme-to-phoneme correspondence ( excluding exceptions due to loan words and assimilation ) include those of Finnish, Albanian, Georgian, Turkish ( apart from ğ and various palatal and vowel allophones ), Serbo-Croatian ( Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian ), Bulgarian, Macedonian ( if the apostrophe is counted, though slight inconsistencies may be found ), Eastern Armenian ( apart from o, v ), Basque ( apart from palatalized l, n ), Haitian Creole, Castilian Spanish ( apart from h, x, b / v, and sometimes k, c, g, j, z ), Czech ( apart from ě, ů, y, ý ), Polish ( apart from ó, h, rz ), Romanian ( apart from distinguishing semivowels from vowels ), Ukrainian ( mainly phonemic with some other historical / morphological rules, as well as palatalization ), Swahili ( missing aspirated consonants, which do not occur in all varieties and are sparsely used anyways ), Mongolian ( apart from letters representing multiple sounds depending on front or back vowels, the soft and hard sign, silent letters to indicate / ŋ / from / n / and voiced versus voiceless consonants ) Azerbaijani ( apart from k ), and Kazakh ( apart from и, у, х, щ, ю ).

* Early sign may be a white patch ( leukoplakia ) or a red patch ( erythroplakia ) on the soft tissues of the mouth

However, for most international practitioners, development of soft law instruments is an accepted part of the compromises required when undertaking daily work within the international legal system, where states are often reluctant to sign up to too many commitments that might result in national resentment at over-committing to an international goal.

The Seahawks previously sold soft drinks from The Coca-Cola Company ; the Jones Soda deal made the team the first in the NFL to sign an exclusive deal with a soft drink company other than Coca-Cola or Pepsi.

Its companion is the front yer, now known as the soft sign in Russian and as er malək ( ер малък, " small er ") in Bulgarian ( Ь, ь ), which was originally also a reduced vowel, more frontal than the ъ, and which is today used to mark the palatalization of consonants in all of the Slavic languages written in the Cyrillic script, except for Serbian and Macedonian, where it is not used although its traces can be seen in the letters њ and љ.

As a result, in the twentieth century there were occasional proposals to eliminate the hard sign altogether, and replace it with the soft sign ь, which always marks the softening of a consonant.

* From 1958 until 1991 ( simplified version of the alphabet defined using the Cyrillic script, and digraphs formed with Јј borrowed from Latin, removing unnecessary distinctions between the soft and hard sign that did not exit in the original Latin script and in the language ):

*: When compared it to the historic Latin alphabet: Ğğ has replaced the historic ( which was represented in Cyrllic by the stroked Ғғ ); the undotted Iı ( also used in Turkish ) has replaced the historic soft sign ; the dotted İi ( also used in Turkish ) has replaced the historic soft-dotted Ii ; Jj has replaced the historic ; Öö has replaced the historic ; Üü has replaced the historic Yy ; and Yy has replaced the historic Jj.

The soft sign is normally written after a consonant and indicates it softening ( palatalization ).

Less commonly, the soft sign just has a grammatically determined usage with no phonetic meaning ( like ' flourish after a toast ' and тушь ' India ink ', both pronounced, but different in grammatical gender and declension ).

In East Slavic and some other Slavic languages ( such as Bulgarian ), there are some consonants which do not have phonetically different palatalized forms, but corresponding letters admit the affixing soft sign nevertheless.

The Cyrillic variant of the Serbian language ( Vukovica ) has had no soft sign as a distinct letter since the mid-19th century: palatalization is represented by special consonant letters instead of this sign ( some of these letters, such as ‹ Њ › or ‹ Љ ›, were designed as ligatures with the grapheme of the soft sign ).

This feature, quite consistent with Russian orthography, promulgated a confusion between palatalization and iotation, especially because ‹ ь › usually precedes so named soft vowels.

Such a simplified system usually omits diacritics and tie-bars, simplifies-yj and-ij word endings to "- y ", ignores the Ukrainian soft sign ( ь ) and apostrophe (’), and may substitute ya, ye, yu, yo for ia, ie, iu, io at the beginnings of words.

The soft sign ь has no phonetic value, but indicates softening ( palatalization ) of a preceding consonant.

It also revised the alphabetical order, moving the soft sign ь from the end of the alphabet, to a position before the letter ю, which helps sort Ukrainian text together with Russian and Belarusian ( following a proposal by L. M.

The principles were following: if га / го / гу / гы / ка / ко / ку / кы / is followed by " soft syllable ", containing " ә, е, ө, и, ү " or soft sign " ь ", they are spelled as ğä / ğö / ğü / ğe / qä / qö / qü / qe, in other cases as ğa / ğo / ğu / ğı / qa / qo / qu / qı.

The subfamily can be easily recognized by its characteristic smell ( the smell of garlic and onions, singular enough to be called " garlic odour "), by the very soft, fleshy leaves and the umbel-like inflorescence at the end of a stem ( scape ), which has small to medium flowers with a superior ovary.

When initially expelled by or removed from the whale, the fatty precursor of ambergris is pale white in color ( sometimes streaked with black ), soft, with a strong fecal smell.

Dynamically built PVPs ( soft PVPs or SPVPs ) and PVCs ( soft PVCs or SPVCs ), in contrast, are built by specifying the characteristics of the circuit ( the service " contract ") and the two end points.

Another use of agar-agar is in Ptich ' ye moloko ( Bird's Milk ), a rich gellied custard ( or soft meringue ) used as a cake filling or chocolate-glazed as individual sweets.

On reaching 21 ( including soft 21 ), the hand is normally required to stand ; busting is an irrevocable loss and the players ' wagers are immediately forfeited to the house.

A small stream, the Nebel, ( the ground either side of which was soft and marshy and only fordable intermittently ), fronted the French line.

Places include bilabial ( both lips ), alveolar ( tongue against the gum ridge ), and velar ( tongue against soft palate ).

It is a soft, silvery-gold alkali metal with a melting point of 28 ° C ( 82 ° F ), which makes it one of only five elemental metals that are liquid at ( or near ) room temperature.

Caesium is a very soft ( it has the lowest hardness of all elements, 0. 2 Mohs ), very ductile, silvery-white metal, which develops a silvery-gold hue in the presence of trace amounts of oxygen.

It can be divided into various groups such as plain water, alcohol, non alcoholic drinks, soft drinks ( carbonated drinks ), fruit or vegetable juices and hot drinks.

A trivalent element, pure erbium metal is malleable ( or easily shaped ), soft yet stable in air, and does not oxidize as quickly as some other rare-earth metals.

There are many English words of non-Romance origin where ⟨ g ⟩ is hard though followed by ⟨ e ⟩ or ⟨ i ⟩ ( e. g. get, gift ), and a few in which ⟨ g ⟩ is soft though followed by ⟨ a ⟩ ( margarine ).

While the soft value of ⟨ g ⟩ varies in different Romance languages ( in French and Portuguese, in Catalan, in Italian and Romanian, and in Castilian Spanish, and in other dialects of Spanish ), in all except Romanian and Italian, soft ⟨ g ⟩ has the same pronunciation as the ⟨ j ⟩.

Pure iron is soft ( softer than aluminium ), but is unobtainable by smelting.

The latter tend to supply alcohol ( and, in the UK, usually soft drinks and sometimes food ), but less commonly accommodation.

Higher purity levels are less common with alloys at 22 K ( 91. 6 % pure gold ), and 24 K ( 99. 9 % pure gold ) being considered too soft for jewellery use in America and Europe.

45 million litres of julmust are consumed during December ( to be compared with roughly 9 million Swedes ), which is around 50 % of the total soft drink volume in December and 75 % of the total yearly must sales.

Gold, for example, is very soft in pure form ( 24-karat ), which is why for jewellery alloys of 18-karat or lower are preferred.

They differ from machetes in that they generally have far thicker, tapered blades optimized for chopping European vegetation ( the thin, flat blade of the machete is better for soft plants found in tropical environments ), sword-like hilts and guards, and sometimes a sawback-blade.

Conventional radiography is useful, both by itself and in conjunction with CT or MRI, for detecting complications of osteopenia ( reduced bone mass ; pre-osteoporosis ), such as fractures ; for differential diagnosis of osteopenia ; or for follow-up examinations in specific clinical settings, such as soft tissue calcifications, secondary hyperparathyroidism, or osteomalacia in renal osteodystrophy.

The latter tend to provide alcohol ( and, in the UK, soft drinks and often food ), but less commonly accommodation.

Pteranodon had slightly larger feet ( 47 % the length of the tibia ), while filter-feeding pterosaurs like the ctenochasmatoids had very large feet ( 69 % of tibial length in Pterodactylus, 84 % in Pterodaustro ), adapted to walking in soft muddy soil, similar to modern wading birds.