Transcription
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- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
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- [skah]
- /skɑ/
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- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
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- [skah]
- /skɑ/
Definitions of ska word
- noun ska a modern style of vocalized Jamaican popular music, which emerged in the 1950s as a blend of African-Jamaican folk music, calypso, and American rhythm and blues, notable for its shuffling, scratchlike tempo and jazzlike horn riffs on the offbeat. 1
- noun ska a type of West Indian pop music of the 1960s, accented on the second and fourth beats of a four-beat bar 0
- noun ska a form of dance music, originally from Jamaica, characterized by the use of saxophones and brass, a heavily accented offbeat, and the influence of New Orleans rhythm and blues, jazz, and calypso 0
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Origin of ska
First appearance:
before 1960 One of the 3% newest English words
First recorded in 1960-65; of obscure origin
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Ska
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
ska popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 91% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
ska usage trend in Literature
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