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Abbreviation for:

I DON’T GIVE A FUCK WHAT THE CDC SAYS YOU BE WEARING YOUR MASK

Internatioanl Phonetic Alphabet. Symbols that describe the pronunciation of a word, it will always be enclosed between the slash symbol. Way to write down how a word should sound. It includes sounds that might not be natural in English, it can be understood and pronounced by anyone who knows the symbols.

Intermittant Paroxysmal Attractiveness, a term used to reference a woman or man who is intermittantly suddenly attractive. This usually ocurrs without warning and frequently disappears just as fast. Similar to a "two-face". An example would be when a girl comes in to work one day totally dressed up with her hair and makeup perfect but is usually not attractive.

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The words given as examples for two different symbols may sound the same to you. For example, you may pronounce cot and caught the same, do and dew, or marry and merry. This often happens because of dialect variation (see our articles English phonology and International Phonetic Alphabet chart for English dialects). If this is the case, you will pronounce those symbols the same for other words as well.1 Whether this is true for all words, or just when the sounds occur in the same context, depends on the merger.2 The footnotes explain some of these cases.