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How to pronounce la in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms atomic number 57, lanthanum
Type of metallic element, metal
Type Words
Synonyms la., louisiana, pelican state
Type Words
Synonyms lah
Type of solfa syllable

Examples of la

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If you're selected, you live in a house in LA for 100 days starting this summer.
From the denverpost.com
They offer high-quality dresses for one-tenth the price of an Oscar de la Renta.
From the timesunion.com
High season here doesn't mean elbowing throngs of tourists a la Big Sur in July.
From the sfgate.com
On the good side, it left me room to grab some of Randy's famous L.A. doughnuts.
From the businessweek.com
In fact, they are starting to do that in L.A., but don't publish it in this way.
From the abcnews.go.com
Festival de la Familia, sponsored by The Bee, started in 1992 in Old Sacramento.
From the sacbee.com
In June, our columnist set off from a California beach in the LA to NY footrace.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Density is a reason why NYC jobs, Boston jobs, LA jobs pay more than Texas jobs.
From the economist.com
It's easy to get caught up in the glamorous hoop-la and fabulousness of the job.
From the independent.co.uk
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  • Lanthanum: a white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily; occurs in rare earth minerals and is usually classified as a rare earth
  • Louisiana: a state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War
  • The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization
  • .la is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Laos.
  • Gu266F (G-sharp) or Sol Diu00E8se is the ninth semitone of the solfege. In the German pitch nomenclature, it is known as "gis."
  • Sju00F6gren's syndrome or Sju00F6gren syndrome (SS) (pronounced /u02C8u0283ou028Au0261ru1D7Bn/ or /u02C8u0283u025Cu02D0ru0261ru025Bn/ in English, the latter to approximate the Swedish pronunciation ), is a chronic autoimmune inflammatory disease in which the body's white blood cells destroy the moisture-producing glands of the body...
  • La is a genus of moths of the Crambidae family. There are four species in the genus, and all have been given punning names.
  • L.A. (Light Album) is The Beach Boys' twenty-third studio album, their last released in the 1970s, and their first as part of their contract with CBS Records. ...
  • La or A is the sixth note of the fixed-Do solfu00E8ge. Its enharmonic equivalent B (or Heses) is a diatonic semitone above Au266D.