Normally when /z/ is intervocalic, that is, between two vowels, it is fully voiced, otherwise partly or fully devoiced. Say, for example, 'vases' and you can feel the vocal cord vibration with the first /z/. The second /z/ in the word is devoiced

I personally wouldn't use Wikipedia as a source, for example, for an important work. One must bear in mind that it is easy to acces. That is, there are no serious demands who can and who can't write in there. However, it is convenient if I just

Ruslana wrote: Don't you have any sheltered ice rinks, Zerox? Of course we have but, unfortunately, all of them seem to overbooked with trainings and games. There are some free times available

I spent my whole childhood on ice playing ice hockey. I stopped playing it about three or four years ago. Every now and then, I regret the decision. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to skate this year because of the weather. Hopefully, it gets a

Yet, Russia is quite worried about Finland joining NATO.

'The King’s young daughter Elizabeth was intended to abduct and after converting her into a Catholic enthrone her.' This sentence feels a bit strange as it is. Part of me wants to put a comma or a semicolon before 'enthorne her'. Am I right?

What are those things called which are, for example, hung around the effigies of Guy Fawkes and in them it says ' penny for the guy? Is is a placard? A sign? Or something else?

Well, to give more context. The circumstance has to do with Guy Fawkes Day and the firework displays in overall.

Is the aforementioned phrasal verb suitable to depict the situation when money is used on fireworks and one, literally, fires the money to the sky?

I'm afraid there is no easy way to increase one's vocabulary. It requires work, sometimes awfully lot of work. It is useful, however, to invent a sentence in which you use the new word you encounter. Normally, the stranger the sentence, the easier