", spoken by Brian's mother Mandy to the crowd assembled outside her house, has been voted by readers of BOL. com the funniest line in film history.

All of us yelled at once, " WE GOT IT -- SNOBOL " in the spirit of all the BOL languages.

In 2002, KF bought a 50 % share in BOL Sweden from Bertelsmann.

During this time it increased its internet activities by starting the online media portal BOL ( Bertelsmann Online ), which was sold to buch. de in 2002.

Either way it sounds like a sizable hunk of money and is.

Mr. George Hough ( Oct. 30 ) sounds like a business man who waits until the last minute to leave his home or shop.

Command's new Brahms Second is a major effort to make a record that sounds like a real orchestra rather than a copy of one.

Aids sounds more like a Pony Club, or horsemanship classes -- riding a horse and showing a dog are very similar!!

One learns to become alert to changes in his vocal tone -- to his voice's suddenly shifting to a quality not like his usual one, a quality which sounds somehow artificial or, in some instances, parrot-like.

there is no phrase or image that sounds like Hardy or that is striking enough to give individuality to the poem.

`` Your dad sounds like a good father and a good policeman.

`` 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 ''??

There was a gabble of voices from indoors, young hungry sounds like cats after fish, and a burst of swearing from the old man.

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.

`` I know you feel badly, but that sounds like such a queer thing for you to say ''.

Only high frequency sounds like mating calls are heard in this way but low frequency noises can be detected through another mechanism.

This is to avoid the notion that a writing system that represents sounds must be either a syllabary or an alphabet, which implies that a system like Aramaic must be either a syllabary ( as argued by Gelb ) or an incomplete or deficient alphabet ( as most other writers have said ); rather, it is a different type.

Chinese has in which the first element sounds like the accented second syllable in " America " ( and the second element means " nation ").

Much of it sounds like the Apocalypse, by which Snorri, a Christian, can hardly fail to have been influenced.

This class of sounds includes lateral approximants like ( as in less ), non-lateral approximants like ( as in rest ), and semivowels like and ( as in yes and west, respectively ).

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.

) the Lochra would seem to be the combined mouth of the Gravona and Prunelli Rivers, neither one of which sounds like Lochra.

The Israelites cross the Jordan through the miraculous intervention of God and his ark and are circumcised at Gibeath-Haaraloth ( translated as hill of foreskins ), renamed Gilgal in memory ( Gilgal sounds like Gallothi, I have removed, but is more likely to translate as circle of standing stones ).

There are several ways to produce breathy-voiced sounds like.

In fact, the English alphabet has fewer consonant letters than English has consonant sounds, so digraphs like " ch ", " sh ", " th ", and " zh " are used to extend the alphabet, and some letters and digraphs represent more than one consonant.

Listening to the only surviving recordings of a castrato ( see below ), one can hear that the lower part of the voice sounds like a " super-high " tenor, with a more falsetto-like upper register above that.

In 1938, Henderson was one of the original 16 soloists in Vaughan Williams's Serenade to Music ( his is the solo line to the words ‘ Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds ’).

For example b and p represent and ( p and p ‘ in Wade ) A potentially confusing feature of GR is the use of j, ch, and sh to represent two different series of sounds.

Engraving from Renaissance Italy showing Apollo, the Muses, the planetary spheres and musical ratios. The Music of the Spheres incorporates the metaphysical principle that mathematical relationships express qualities or ‘ tones ' of energy which manifest in numbers, visual angles, shapes and sounds – all connected within a pattern of proportion.

There is a lot of confusion especially when it comes to the use of the grapheme ‘ y ’, which is often used for rounded sounds, i. e. or, whereas it is exclusively used for traditionally.

Shchedrin weaves together all the threads of this plot into an absorbing musical fabric ”… It is joyful to witness a composer who writes real music and not simply an assortment of sounds which attract the attention to their creator simply because he is celebrated and famous … How many times I had the occasion of witnessing how certain haughty composers with their rhetorical pretensions to creating their so-called ‘ music of the future ’ disappeared without a trace, notwithstanding the titanic efforts of their frantic followers.

Their distinctive sound also combines indo-dub basslines, searing sitar-inspired guitars and ‘ traditional ’ sounds, shot through with fast-chat conscious lyrics.

Sound localization is often more difficult with sine waves than with other sounds ; they seem to ‘ fill the room ’.

In the concert hall, that is, in ‘ secular ’ surroundings, the music sounds different ...”

Today, there is ample evidence to suggest that children do not learn words through ‘ fast mapping ’ but rather learn probabilistic, predictive relationships between objects and sounds that develop over time.

In the 1970s, he created 150 water instruments called ‘ aquaphones ’ ( described in his pioneering book ‘ La Musique De L ’ eau ’), including a " flutabullum ", a system of transforming flute sounds by recording them underwater ).

The Kalibox ‘ s original music blends the sounds of nepali traditional music, indian classical music, jazz, funk, and popular music to create a seamless synthesis of cultures and traditions.

Written with Santigold and The Bravery ’ s Sam Endicott, it ’ s a Day-Glo disco jam that sounds like Gwen Stefani doing ‘ Borderline ’.

Every night she wept bitter tears and grieved for all she was now parted from: worn rocks and turf under her feet instead of pavements, ‘ the night sounds of the river birds, flocks of sandpipers in flight, curlews and solitary gulls .’ ( 3 )

And they wanted to take out that noise, and they took it out and said, ‘ Naw, we gotta leave that in .’ That sounds almost like a rhythm on the record.

* " My friend Peter Schmidt used to talk about ‘ not doing the things that nobody had ever thought of not doing ’, which is an inverse process – where you leave out an assumption that everybody has always made and see what happens ( e. g. music has to be made of intentionally produced sounds was the assumption that Cage left out ).

In September 2005, the imported debut was ' Album Of The Week ' in influential London record store Rough Trade who described it as "... a fantastic album of ‘ European cool ’ with breathy vocals over music which sounds like The Concretes, Stereolab or a modern take on the Velvet Underground …" In 2006 the band released the album on their own Rushmore Recordings label headed up by ex Warner Bros A & R executive and Deaf School founder member Steve Allen.

‘ Mantra ’ established their unique hind rock resonance which was an eclectic mixture of Indian and global sounds.

* In BrE and AmE, the letter's ' at the end of plurals are pronounced /- z / after voiced sounds like ‘ b / b /’, ‘ d / d /’, g / g /, ‘ m / m /’, n / n /, ‘ ng / ŋ /’, r /( r )/, v / v /, w / ʊ /, l / l /, ‘ th / ð /’ and vowel sound.

( However, the's ' added to words ending in voiced sounds ‘ p / p /’, ‘ t / t /’, ‘ k / k /’, ‘ f / f /’, ‘ th / θ /’ are pronounced / s / even in BrE and AmE.