Gibberish ( sometimes spelled Jibberish ) is a generic term in English for talking that sounds like speech, but carries no actual meaning.

Iain M. Banks references this in his novel Against a Dark Background, when a character claims that the word onomatopoeia is spelled " just the way it sounds!

A homographic pun exploits words which are spelled the same ( homographs ) but possess different meanings and sounds.

These overlapping spelling patterns mean that in many cases the same sound can be spelled differently and the same spelling can represent different sounds.

The English sounds spelled " ch " and " j " ( transcribed and in IPA ), German and Italian z and Italian z are typical affricates.

and these sounds are both spelled as " th ".

Because many different hanja — and thus, many different words written using hanja — often share the same sounds, two distinct hanja words ( hanjaeo ) may be spelled identically in the phonetic hangul alphabet.

The Spanish pronunciation sounds much like, " oreeya ," and since the word itself is spelled almost identically to Orillia, without the second, " i ," it has come to be commonly accepted as the source word for the city's name.

English spelling was also influenced by Norman in this period, with the and sounds being spelled th rather than with the Old English letters þ ( thorn ) and ð ( eth ), which did not exist in Norman.

A perfect phonemic orthography has one letter per group of sounds ( phoneme ), with different letters only where the sounds distinguish words ( so " bed " is spelled differently from " bet ").

In Bolivia and Southern Peru, including Cuzco, there are three versions of all the stop consonants: the basic unaspirated sounds ( p, t, ch, k, q ), an aspirated series spelled with an h ( ph, th, chh, kh, qh ); and finally an ejective series spelled with an apostrophe ( p ', t ', ch ', k ', q ).

Probably the most obvious difference between northern and southern Dutch is in the sounds spelled < ch > and < g >.

The term transliteration means using an alphabet to represent the letters and sounds of a word spelled in another alphabet, whereas the term transcription means using an alphabet to represent the sounds only.

The orthography of Middle Welsh was not standardized, and there is great variation between manuscripts in how certain sounds are spelled.

While words in both Ido and Esperanto are spelled exactly as they are pronounced, the presence of digraphs means that Ido does not have the one-to-one correspondence between letters and sounds that Esperanto has.

although we didn't expect the attack before dawn, the long cloudy night, filled with the sounds of the industrious insects, seemed endless.

He heard their chattering, and then the sounds of hacking as they dismembered the snake right on the porch with wood axes.

When words can be used in a more fresh and primitive way so that they strike with the force of sights and sounds, when tones of sound and colors of paint and the carven shape all strike the sensibilities with an undeniable force of data in and of themselves, compelling the observer into an attitude of attention, all this imitates the way experience itself in its deepest character strikes upon the door of consciousness and clamors for entrance.

in working with these patients the therapist eventually gets to do some at least private mulling over of the possible meaning of a belch, or the passage of flatus, not only because he is reduced to this for lack of anything else to analyze, but also because he learns that even these animal-like sounds constitute forms of communication in which, from time to time, quite different things are being said, long before the patient can become sufficiently aware of these, as distinct feelings and concepts, to say them in words.

But there is every reason to regard deal as a monosyllable, and because of the fact that /l/ commonly has the quality of AAb/ when it follows vowel sounds, deal seems to be a perfectly satisfactory rhyme with deal.

`` This deal at Las Putas Buenas where the two knife-men jumped you '', said Rourke with interest, `` that sounds like it was set up with malice aforethought by the luscious Mrs. Peralta, doesn't it ''??

It's so romantic up there, she used to say, with the broad river gleaming in its moontrack like an enormous dark mirror and all the sounds of the night, so poetic.

Richard left America with his clothes, his biwa and his image of Acala and, on the freighter which took him to Japan, he plucked at the biwa, trying to make the sounds he wrought resemble an ancient Japanese tune he had once heard.

He pretended that the lath was a tractor and he would drag it through the dirt and make buzzing, tractor sounds with his lips.

This A section featured duple meter, singsong rhythms, and diatonic melodies with the sounds of oboe, English horn, and taxi horns.

In the B section, Gershwin uses common time, syncopated rhythms, and bluesy melodies with the sounds of trumpet, saxophone, and snare drum.

The Hindi alphabet must represent both Sanskrit and modern vocabulary, and so has been expanded to 58 with the khutma letters ( letters with a dot added ) to represent sounds from Persian and English.

In accordance with the principle on which alphabets are based, these rules will generally map letters of the alphabet to the phonemes ( significant sounds ) of the spoken language.

In a syllabary, a grapheme denotes a complete syllable, that is, either a lone vowel sound or a combination of a vowel sound with one or more consonant sounds.

In sign languages, however, several channels operate simultaneously — hand shape, often with the two hands operating independently, hand location, hand motion, facial expression, mouthing — making an alphabetic script more complicated than just stringing letters together in the order sounds are produced.

Approximants are speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough or with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow.

They will either replace the desired word with another that sounds or looks like the original one, or has some other connection, or they will replace it with sounds.

Accordingly, patients with jargon aphasia often use neologisms, and may perseverate if they try to replace the words they can't find with sounds.

In flight, a wedge of Black Swans will form as a line or a V, with the individual birds flying strongly with undulating long necks, making whistling sounds with their wings and baying, bugling or trumpeting calls.

Beginning in July 1959, the three-year-old chimpanzee was trained under the direction of neuroscientist Joseph V. Brady at Holloman Air Force Base Aero Medical Field Laboratory to do simple, timed tasks in response to electric lights and sounds.

The sounds of P and Q were frequently reversed between Latin and Oscan, much as B and V are between Latin and German.

Like several other sounds V has a second, opposite meaning.

* In Vietnam, the V sign means " hello " since the Vietnamese word for the number " 2 " sounds like the English pronunciation of the greeting " hi ".

Unknown Indian actor Hrundi V. Bakshi ( Sellers ) has a small role in which he sounds a bugle to start the attack.

** MUSIC V was considerably augmented at IRCAM in Paris by John Gardner and Jean-Louis Richer to enable it to process digitized sounds as well as to synthesize sounds

Within Russia itself, however, a consensus has found its way into university textbooks of historical grammar ( e. g., V. V. Ivanov ), that, taking all the dialects into account, the sounds remained predominantly distinct until the eighteenth century, at least under stress, and are distinct to this day in some localities.

There are, however, different writing theories that represent some letters or sounds differently ( e. g., the "* F " for " final V " in the chart below ), and each court reporter develops personalized " briefs " and alternate ways of writing things.

" Boris V. Timchenko, a noted D. C .- based landscape architect, supervised the design of the grounds ( which included more than 150 planters, tiers of fountains designed to create sounds like a waterfall, landscaped rooftop terraces, swimming pools, and a park ).

This was later supplanted on the PLATO V terminal by the Gooch Cybernetic Synthesizer, which had 16 voices that could be programmed individually or combined to make more complex sounds.

While early linguists such as André Martinet and Morris Swadesh had seen the potential of substituting glottalic sounds for the supposed plain voiced stops of Proto-Indo-European, the proposal remained speculative until fully fleshed-out theories were simultaneously but independently published in 1973 by Paul Hopper of the United States in the journal Glossa and by Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze and Vyacheslav V. Ivanov of the Soviet Union in the journal Phonetica in 1972.

The first sounds of neurofunk's early evolution-when diverging from techstep-can be heard on Ed Rush and Optical's " Funktion " single for V Recordings and on their first album Wormhole for Virus Recordings in 1998.

Monroe Connery Boyd Carlyle McGregor Scott V ( Monroe for short, voiced by Carlos Alazraqui ) is an enchanted pug that speaks with a Scottish accent and sounds similar to the eponymous ogre of the movie Shrek.

When you read the first letter ( B ) of the English-titled song " Bless me " in Bulgarian ( as " V ") it sounds like the Bulgarian phrase " Vlez mi " ( Enter Into Me ).

V Recordings is known for representing a wide variety of styles and subgenres of Drum and Bass, from the liquid styles of Artificial Intelligence to the harder sounds of Dillinja and Lemon D. V Recordings was also the first UK label to feature the material from the Brazilian Drum and Bass scene.

In the early stages of his career Waters used a Hamer Flying V. Around 1994, he began to experiment with other guitars and over the next few years used classic models such as a Gibson SG and Gibson Les Paul to achieve the diversity of sounds in Annihilator's music during this time period.