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Linguisitc prejudice is endemic in public life, widely tolerated, and institutionalized in social enterprises that affect almost everyone, such as education and the media. There is limited knowledge about and little regard forlinguistic study showing that all varieties of a language display systematicity and that the elevated social position of standard varieties has no scientific linguistic basis.
(Available in: https://www.thoughtco.com. Adapted.)
The coloniality framework, which is present in several levels of personal and social life, is still reproduced even in the absence of colonial management, echoing in classrooms, in a very steady way in English classes. It is NOT a biased manifestation that might contaminate English teaching/learning to favor:
Group 1
• Think – Bath – Thigh – Thorn – Length – Aesthetic – Cloth – Thousand – Thumb
Group 2
• Those – Then – With – Although – This – Within – Therefore – They – Mother
The sound represented by the TH in Group 1 and the sound represented by the TH in Group 2 differ due to:
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Text 1
High-income countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom have higher food spending in absolute terms, but the share of household consumption expenditures devoted to athome food is low– less than 10 percent. In Kenya and other low- -income countries, at-home food’s share of consumption expenditures can exceed 50 percent. Per capita calorie availability follows the reverse path. According to the most recent available data, U.S. per capita calorie availability was among the highest at 3,682 calories per day, while Kenya’s was estimated at only 2,206 calories.
Text 2
For a typical dollar spent in 2020 by U.S. consumers on domestically produced food, including both grocery store and eating-out purchases,27.9 cents went to foodservice establishments such as restaurants and other eating-out places. The foodservice share of the food dollar decreased after 9 years of gains as households shifted to food-at-home consumption during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. For the remainder of the food dollar, transportation (4.1 cents) and wholesale trade (11.9 cents) rose to their highest shares reported in the series, which provides statistics back to 1993.
(Economic Research Service U.S. – Department of Agriculture.
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products.)
In both of the texts the common theme is:
• Hit / Heat • Bit / Beat • Knit / Neat • Chip / Cheap • Live / Leave
The set of minimal pairs was used for oral practice being its specific target to distinguish vowel pronounciation. Mark the criteria that accounts for the vowel distintion existing in all of the chosen minimal pairs.
